Homage to a Malayalam actor with multi faces.

  Srinivasan who passed away today was not just a dynamic character actor but also a film producer, director and script writer. From the mid Nineteen Seventies till the early twenties of the new millennium he enriched Malayalam cinema with his highly qualitative versatility. He is yet another prominent face of Malayalam cinema to stay long, in the memories of the audience and find an eternal place in the archives of Mollywood.

  This blog writer would not have watched  many films of Srinivasan. But as the famous Tamil saying goes a bit of rice is enough, to test a pot full of rice. The roles assigned to him were filled with emotions such as humour, mischief, cynicism grief, greed and jealousy and he neatly excelled in all of them. Especially whenever he joined the company of Mohanlal, he would create a mood of ruckus and revelry. Movies like Akkare Akkare Akkare,Thenmavin Kombath,Midhunam Chithram, Kilichundan Mampazham, Kaalaapani and Oru Marubhoomikkadha,all under the ebullient direction of Priya dharshan, made them both invincible teammates, in Malayalam cinema.

   The other extraordinary film of this duo was Ayal Kadha Ezhuthukayanu which cast indelible impressions on the minds of the viewers. Their combination in Kilichundan Mampazham abounded in irresistible humour, with Srinivasan as a Muslim under the clutches of polygamy, struggling to prevent his untouched third wife Soundharya, from falling into the hands of her lover Mohanlal. Srinivasan's other table entries with Mohanlal were T.P.Rajagopalan M.A,Gandhi Nagar 2nd Street and Nadodik kattu[all directed by Sathyan Anthikad], Sadayam,His Highness Abdhullah {made by Sibi Malayil}Pavithram, Udaynanu Tharam and Akasha Gopuram. His important films with Mammootty were Prajapathi,Annan Thambi and Kadha Parayumpol {for which he wrote the storyline}

   Srinivasan's involvement in Malayalam cinema was truly dedicated, and his contribution was massive, on account of his shouldering multi responsibilities. Acting in more than two hundred films, he made himself an inevitable addition to Malayalam cinema's magnitude and magnificence. The last film of Srinivasan that this blog writer saw was Keedam,a thriller film, as the father of Rajisha Vijayan.Though Srinivasan's two sons are capable of retaining the film glory of their salient, celluloid father, the fact remains that a significant void will be felt by the Malayalam film industry, over the demise of this illustrious face Malayalam cinema,stuffed with the grandeur of the milky way.

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