Randor Guy

Indian film critic

PersonDied aged 85humanQ7292019

Also known as Madabhushi Rangadorai

Born: November 8, 1937
Died: April 23, 2023
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1.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/veteran-columnist-author-and-film-historian-randor-guy-no-more/article66772661.ece
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Birthplace: Nellore
Place of death: Chennai
Citizenship: India
, British Raj
, Dominion of India(since 1947)
Occupation: author
, journalist
, historian
+3 more
Education: University of Madras

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Madabhushi Rangadorai, better known by his pen name Randor Guy, was an Indian lawyer, columnist and film and legal historian associated with the English language newspaper The Hindu. He was also the official editor of the weekly column "Blast from the Past" that appeared in The Hindu for many years; in this series Randor Guy wrote about not so well known details of Tamil movies and the personalities, produced since the mid-1930s to the late 1960s.

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TTales of The Kama Sutra: The Perfumed Garden2000 · 2000 film by Jag Mundhra

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