Homage to Ratheesh
From: kalyankumar
Date: Fri Jan 24, 2003
Dear Friends,
The days preceding the new year, I had been bearing a private grief,which I thought I would share with you now. It was the untimely demise of Malayalam film actor Ratheesh. Though as an actor, Ratheeshwas not as successful as Mammuty or Mohanlal, some of his individual charcters are too good to forget so easily.
I watched Ratheesh first in Ulkadal, directed by KG George in a small role of a medical representative. But he impressed me most as an actor in Balachandra Menon's ISHTAMANU PAKSHEY. In that movie,Ratheesh plays the role of an Air force employee, who comes home onleave and makes a point to visit Nandii Kutti (Ambika) regularly in the evenings in the pretext of going to temple, who is his murapennu.
Even as he subtly expresses his desire to make her the life-partner ,she gives him a shock saying that "Ishtamanu, Pakshe.. but she will marry only a writer.
This man who only knows to love Nandinikutty can never cause her anyhurt. He goes back to work. The news of his death in an aircarsh, months later leads to the first mis-carriage of Nandinikutty, who hadalready married a businessman, whose only love for books is limitedto reading Railway Time Table.
Even today that character essayed by Ratheesh struggling to balance the expectations and imminent frustration is simply unforgettable.Though I have watched him in movies like Ee Nadu, Chamaram, Thusharam etc, this type of a depth was missing in all of them. What is morepoignant is that death snatched him, at a time he was horning his emotive skills in a better way in TV serials and was keenly trying for a forceful second coming.
May his soul rest in peace.
Best Regards,
G. Kalyan Kumar
Date: Fri Jan 24, 2003
Dear Friends,
The days preceding the new year, I had been bearing a private grief,which I thought I would share with you now. It was the untimely demise of Malayalam film actor Ratheesh. Though as an actor, Ratheeshwas not as successful as Mammuty or Mohanlal, some of his individual charcters are too good to forget so easily.
I watched Ratheesh first in Ulkadal, directed by KG George in a small role of a medical representative. But he impressed me most as an actor in Balachandra Menon's ISHTAMANU PAKSHEY. In that movie,Ratheesh plays the role of an Air force employee, who comes home onleave and makes a point to visit Nandii Kutti (Ambika) regularly in the evenings in the pretext of going to temple, who is his murapennu.
Even as he subtly expresses his desire to make her the life-partner ,she gives him a shock saying that "Ishtamanu, Pakshe.. but she will marry only a writer.
This man who only knows to love Nandinikutty can never cause her anyhurt. He goes back to work. The news of his death in an aircarsh, months later leads to the first mis-carriage of Nandinikutty, who hadalready married a businessman, whose only love for books is limitedto reading Railway Time Table.
Even today that character essayed by Ratheesh struggling to balance the expectations and imminent frustration is simply unforgettable.Though I have watched him in movies like Ee Nadu, Chamaram, Thusharam etc, this type of a depth was missing in all of them. What is morepoignant is that death snatched him, at a time he was horning his emotive skills in a better way in TV serials and was keenly trying for a forceful second coming.
May his soul rest in peace.
Best Regards,
G. Kalyan Kumar
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