All You Need To Know About Inventor GD Naidu, Who'll Be Portrayed By R Madhavan In His Biopic
A biopic on Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu aka G. D. Naidu, an Indian inventor, and engineer is in the works.
R Madhavan is all set to play another interesting and rare-known character on the big screen.
After winning the audience with his portrayal of Nambi Narayanan, the ISRO scientist who was arrested under false charges of espionage, in Rocketry: The Nambi Effect, R Madhavan will be seen playing 'Edison of India' Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu.
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Who is G.D Naidu or Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu?
Fondly called the 'Edison of India', G.D Naidu or Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu was an Indian inventor, who was born to a Telugu-speaking family on March 23, 1893.
Naidu, a third-standard school dropout worked at his father's farm when he saw a 1912 model Rudge motorcycle that belonged to a British officer.
As a teenager, Naidu was so smitten by the bike that he moved to Coimbatore leaving everything behind. He worked as a waiter at a hotel to save enough to buy the bike.
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Interestingly, Naidu dismantled his bike to study its design and structure and that's how he learned about automobiles. He worked as a mechanic before working at a cotton mill.
He even went on to start a cotton business but failed.
Later, Naidu got a loan of Rs 4,000 from a Coimbatore-based industrialist, Robert Stanes. With the money, Naidu bought a motor coach and began his transport business in 1920.
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A few years later, he named his transport business 'Universal Motor Service (UMS)' which became one of the largest public transport services in India.
He opened a company and generated employment opportunities for the public.
Naidu carved a niche for himself in Tamil Nadu through his innovations and entrepreneurial ventures. He developed India¡¯s first indigenous motor, with the help of D Balasundaram Naidu in the year 1937.
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He also went on to invent devices that made everyday life simple and was instrumental in setting up India¡¯s first Polytechnic college in 1945, now called 'The Government Polytechnic of Coimbatore.'
India¡¯s Edison GD Naidu died on January 4, 1974.
If reports are to be believed, Mithran R Jawahar will be helming the film based on the Indian inventor.
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