Many Malayalam films for which he has written story and screenplay have celebrated silver jubilees as well as won many awards. He has appeared only twicew briefly in Tamil. His Malayalam script was adapted into Tamil by Thankar Bachan in 'Chidambarathil Oru Appasamy.' Another film made into Tamil is ‘Dindigul Sarathy.'
There are many admirable achievements of Srinivasan that can be extolled, but the Tamil public only knows him as the story writer of ‘Kuselan' in its Malayalam avatar. He has now agreed to act in Shankar's production ‘Rettaichuzhi' that also features Balachander and Bharatiraja in important roles.
The film's director Thamira has also approached Jai to act in this. At that time, his fee was 10 lakhs, and that being high for them, they dropped the idea.
Today, the same Jai's fee is 40 lakhs. Talk about good times!
