P. K. Sarangapani


P. K. Sarangapani was a Malayalam screenwriter and playwright. He has written the screenplay and dialogues for thirty six films, most of them for Kunchackos Udaya Studios. Most of his films are Vadakkanpatturelated period dramas.

Sarangapani was born on 1925 as the son of Arattuvazhi Anthekkuparambil Veettil Pappi and Kankali in Alappuzha district. After completing his education from Alappuzha, he worked in the South Indian Rubber Works. He joined the Communist Party of India in mid1940s and participated in the PunnapraVayalar uprising. He started his career as a writer through the Leftist stage movement and scripted some of the notable stage dramas of the 1950s and early 1960s.

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