'The soldier who raises his head first is a winner', thus goes a saying. Could be true in a battlefront but hardly true in the case of scriptwriter. Especially when it is Suresh Babu who started the war. Here the winner is one who winds up the in the war of words. See what happened to Suresh Babu in just two weeks after THANDAVAM a film for which he had written script.

His name was deleted from the advertisement and posters of the film. All in the industry believe that the negative publicity that THANDAVAM earned was due to its scriptwriter.

He lost at least four offers to write scripts mainly because, THANDAVAM suffered on the demerits of the script. An article written by him in 'Sree' plus demy sheet jeopardized his chances and damaged his reputation and integrity as a scriptwriter. The story goes like this.

He accused director Biju Varkey of ditching him after discussions on PHANTOM PAILY a script he claimed as written by him. A fierce disagreement took place between them. They parted ways. Suresh withdrew from the project 'relinquishing' his rights voluntarily. At the end he places himself as a martyr.

Next week Ajith Pratap a storywriter entered with his version. He describes how he reached Suresh and narrated a story to him and an impressed Suresh promising to go and see Mammootty together in Chennai, but cheated on first step itself by leaving for Chennai without informing AP.

Scriptwriters and directors had an axe to grind with Suresh Babu. He as a critic and columnist axed many a scriptwriters. They have a valid point when they say that he wrote all those reviews not because he loved cinema but he cherished a career in films. He praised a number of directors and shot arrows on scriptwriters.

Do we need to coin a new say? "The soldier who shoots arrow first may miss the target but not the strategic opponent. He will make him bleed".