Now a days, I have started reading tamil novels (thrown out tamil thrillers
by rajeshkumar and co). The first one to start with is, "Raaja thilagam",
by saandilyan (a history novelist). I got this book from my sister.
Story outline:
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the story is about rajashimhan, who is the princess of a pallav ruler,
who got defeated by vikramathiyan(I), and Co.
vikramathiyan invades kanchi and mahabalipuram, with the help of his neighbor
kangans. the pallavans vacates kancheepuram, before vikramathiyan enters the city,
to preserve the art of the city. and the army gets scattered and a part is defeated
by kangans. later, rajasimhan forms a bigger army and follows vikramathiyan, who
had started invading the southern most. The most interesting opening by the
rajasimhan side, is the battled formed like a scorpion, so called "latha viruchagam",
portraying the aggresiveness of lord shiva. later vikramathiyan gets defeated
by this stratergy, inspite of the support from the pandiyas.
the story as such is good. but I feel the screen play (?) is quite lengthier..
lots of pages on romance of the princess with his two lovers (myvili and rangabathaka devi). myvili name sounds interesting to me!..the romance sometime
irritates and breaks the flow.
a good historic novel.
1 comment:
Raja Thilagam is an average novel by Sandilyan. Try Kadal Pura, Jala deebam and Raja Muthirai.. But the irritating romance occurs in every Sandilyan novel, so there is no escape from it. But you can skip most of them, since all those scenes are very similar
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