Kadal Pura - Part 3

Sandilyan or Chandilyan (Tamil: சாண்டில்யன்) is the Pen name of Bhashyam Iyengar, a noted Tamil writer of historical fiction. He is known for his historical romance and adventure novels, often set in the times of the Chola and Pandya empires. He worked at Sudesamithran and started writing full-length novels. One of his first works was a self-published political novel called Balathkaaram. He also started publishing in other magazines like Amudhasurabi. Paalaivanathu pushpam and Sandha deepam were his earliest historical novels. Sandilyan's most famous novels were serialised in Kumudam, a weekly Tamil magazine and was instrumental in increasing the circulation to a greater extent. He was one of the very few Tamil writers to get a monthly salary from Kumudam for his novels.

A theatre actor writer director for 50 years in Tamil stage Having penned over 20 dramas for TV AIR and Stage He has also acted in over 3000 stage shows A Television and AIR artiste since the 70s has and also acted in many popular TV serials A bank officer by profession took early retirement to pursue his ardent passion for theatre. He has also produced many Telefilms for the direct to home segment.

Presently producing Audiobooks of classical novels of popular writers like Ponniyin Selvan, Kadalpura, Sivagamiyin Sabatham, Parthiban Kanavu, etc. His audiobooks are unique in the making. A dramatic rendering of the novels with each character played by different artiste and includes music score and surround sound effects A magazine wrote that these are cinema without a camera These audiobooks are boon to Visually challenged people and who can not read Tamil.

The future generation are keen to listen to this and learn about our culture and history. This also helps in preserving our literary treasures.

He has a few short stories to his credit and writes Humour articles in facebook.