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C.J. Thomas, one of the most reputed dramatists of Malayalam, was born in 1918. One of his most important plays is “A Manushyan Nee Thanne” (You are that man), written in the non-realistic style about the Biblical King David.
This satirises vulgar sensationalist curiosity and the superficiality of human response to others' sufferings. The play also overturned conventional illusionist dramaturgy in Malayalam theatre. The writer died in 1960