![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I searched for this Sabatini book for years, but it was difficult to get and so I gave up hope. I have never read a book by Sabatini before (It is surprising because he has such a beautiful name – ‘Rafael’ which sounds similar to the name of Italian Renaissance painter ‘Raphael’, and ‘Sabatini’ which has a musical ring to it and is also the second name of one of my favourite tennis players of yesteryears, ‘Gabriela Sabatini’). I was very disappointed when I got to know that, but this revelation also piqued my curiosity. I discovered that it was based on an English novel ‘Captain Blood’ by Rafael Sabatini. ![]() Later, I discovered that this was not so. I thought that the movie was based on an original story and a screenplay, written especially for MGR. The movie was a big hit when it was released and has been popular among young movie goers for generations (I saw it a few decades after it was first released). Later, circumstances make him a pirate, albeit of the noble kind. He falls in love with the island chieftain’s daughter (played by Jayalalitha), but it is an impossible love between a slave and a princess. In the movie, MGR plays the role of a doctor living in a fictitious country and he is arrested for treason and deported to an island as a slave. It was a pirate movie starring two Tamil movie icons of yesteryears – MGR and Jayalalitha. One of my favourite movies when I was in school was a Tamil movie called ‘Aayirathil Oruvan’ (‘One in a thousand’ – released in 1965). ![]()
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