[4][1] He was also the official editor of the weekly column "Blast from the Past" that appeared in The Hindufor many years; in this series Randor Guy wrote about not so well known details about the Tamil movies and the personalities (producers, directors, movie stars, lyricists, featured songs and box office collections), produced since the mid 1930s to late 1960s.
[5][6] His original name was Rangadorai, but his pen name (an anglicized version of his birth name after moving the letters around) later became official.
[8][9] After practising as a lawyer for a short time, he quit his job and joined a firm called Paterson and Co. where he worked for five years.
He became popular when his article on Frank Capra was purchased by the United States Information Agency for use as a reference work.
[8] As of 2008, he remains the only non-American whose work has been acquired as reference material by the Government of the United States of America.