Kochi: Well-known Malayalam actor Kaviyoor Ponnamma (79) who breathed her final on Friday was laid to relaxation with full state honours at her residence right here on Saturday. Hundreds of individuals together with VIPs attended the funeral ceremony that commenced at 4 pm. The actor died whereas present process therapy at Lisie Hospital right here.
Ponnamma, who was recognized with stage 4 most cancers in Might final yr, had been admitted to Lisie hospital on September 3. She handed away on Friday night after her well being deteriorated, mentioned hospital authorities.
Big variety of folks paid final respects to the actor throughout the public homage at Kalamassery Municipal City Corridor on Saturday from 9 am to 12 midday. Actors Mohanlal, Mammootty and political leaders additionally arrived on the city corridor to pay tributes to the late actor.
A number of outstanding figures from Kerala’s political and cultural spheres, together with Union Minister Suresh Gopi, actors Dileep and Kunchako Boban, and director B Unnikrishanan, visited the hospital on Friday night time to pay their final respects to the beloved actor. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan mourned the actor’s demise by means of his Fb web page. He identified Ponnamma’s contributions as a theatre artist and movie actor.
Ponnamma, who began her appearing profession by means of theatre on the age of 14, acted in over 1,000 movies. She was identified for taking part in the mom roles of actors like Prem Naseer, Sathyan, Madhu, Soman, Mohanlal, and Mammootty. Curiously, she performed Mohanlal’s mom in over 50 movies.
Ponnamma had donned totally different — even detrimental — roles in Malayalam cinema. She had bankrolled a film, ‘Meghatheertham’, and acquired the state award for the most effective supporting actress 4 instances. Film producer, director, and scenarist the late Mani Swami was her husband. Bindu is the couple’s daughter. Son-in-law Venaktram is a professor on the College of Michigan within the US.
Ponnamma was born to TP Damodaran and Gauriamma at Kaviyoor in Pathanamthitta in 1945. She has six siblings, together with the late actor Kaviyoor Renuka. Her household shifted residence to Ponkunnam in Kottayam when she was one yr previous. Influenced by her father, she began studying music from an early age. She wished to be an achieved singer like MS Subbulakshmi.
Music director Devarajan invited Ponnamma to sing for performs when she was 12 years previous. She sang first for “Mooladhanam”, penned by Thoppil Bhasi. Later, when the theatre group couldn’t discover a lead actress for a similar play, she donned the grease paint for the primary time at Bhasi’s insistence.
Ponnamma went on to develop into the main actress of KPAC. She was later related to different outstanding theatre teams, together with Pratibha Arts Membership and Kalidasa Kalakendram. Her performances in performs akin to ‘Puthiya Aakasham Puthiya Bhoomi’, ‘Physician’, ‘Althara’, and ‘Janani Janmabhoomi’, have been extensively appreciated.
Ponnamma debuted in cinema on the age of 14. It was on the insistence of Thankappan Grasp, the dance teacher at Kalidasa Kalakendram. The film was ‘Sree Rama Pattabhishekam’ of Merryland, and Ponnamma performed Mandodari. She first donned the position of a mom in ‘Kudumbini’. In ‘Thommante Makkal’, she performed the mom of Sathyan and Madhu.
She later acted in about 1,000 motion pictures, together with within the cinemas of outstanding filmmakers PN Menon, Vincent, MT Vasudevan Nair, Ramu Kariat, KS Sethumadhavan, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, John Abraham, Padmarajan and Mohan.
‘Asuravithu’, ‘Velutha Kathrina’, ‘Cross Belt’, ‘Karakaanakadal’, ‘Theerthayatra’. ‘Nirmalyam’, ‘Nellu’, ‘Avalude Raavukal’, ‘Kodiyettam’, ‘Oppol’, ‘Karimbana’, ‘Thinkalazhcha Nalla Divasam’, ‘Thriveni’, ‘Nizhalaattam’, ‘Thaniyaavarthanam’, ‘Naghakshathangal’, ‘His Highness Abdullah’, ‘Kireedam’, ‘Chenkol’, ‘Bharatham’, ‘Santhanagopalam’, ‘Sukrutham’ and many others., have been her outstanding motion pictures.