Chennai: The famous filmmaker of K S Sethumadhavan, who changed some of the short stories of Malayalam and the novel became a film tent by creating a language and cinematic language that matched the original literature, died at his residence in Chennai on Friday.
He is 90 years old.
The Malayalam Movie ‘Achanum Bappayum’ won the Nargis Dutt Award for the best feature film on national integration.
‘Veal Kinavukal’ scripted by M T Vasudevan Nair is Sheumadhavan’s last Malay film.
In Tamil, ‘Nammavar’ (1994) starring Kamal Haasan, Nagesh and Gauthami were his last film.
For Hindi’s buff film, Sethumadhavan is known as the Director of ‘Julie’ (1975), a religious love story that was recharged in Tamil in 1984 as ‘Oh Manane Maane’.
Started his career as an assistant director in 1951, Sethumadhavan made his direct debut with the film Sinhalese Vearavijaya in 1961.
He continued to direct more than 60 films in various languages, including Malayalam, Kannada and Tamil.
He won 10 National Film Awards and Eight Film Awards Kerala and was awarded the JC Daniel award for his restrictions on the cinema in 2009.
‘Kannum Karalum’, ‘Panithiratha Veedu’, ‘Chattakari’ and ‘Vazhve Mayam’ are some of his films Reach cult status in Malayalam.
It was Sethumadhavan who first introduced Kamal Hassan as a child artist in his film ‘Kannum Karalum’ in 1962.
Then he has Hassan in the main role in the film ‘Kanyakumari’ in 1974.
Mammootty made his debut as a junior artist in the film Sheumadhavan in 1971 Anubhavangal Palice.
Odayilnnnu Sethumadhavan, Achanum Bappayum, Yakshi, Chattakkari, Oppol, Punarjanman, Panitheirah Veedu etc.
are based on stories by leading writers in Malayalam.
His first gnanasundari film was based on short stories by Muthath Varkey.
‘Odayilninnu’, where Sathyan plays a rickshaw puller, is based on novels by Kejhavadev and won a national award for the best Malayalam feature film.
‘Panitheerathavedu’, novel adaptation by parappat, bring it praise.
Sethumadhavan also made films based on the works of Uroob Literature, Thoppil Bhasi, K Muhammad, Malayatour Ramachandran and C Radhakrishnan.
“For Sethumadhavan, the film is an extension of the literature and he managed to adapt many popular characters from Malayalam literature to the silver screen without sacrificing their integrity”, said Madhupal Director-Writers.
‘Kankumumari’ and ‘Oppol’, written by MT Vasudevan Nair, is the best example of Sethumadhavan’s talent, “said Madhupal.
The film ‘Chattakkari’, written by Thoppil Bhasi based on a novel by Pamman, is the famous Sethumadhavan film.
Sethumadhavan is held by His wife Valsala, Sons Sonukukar and Santhosh, and the Princess of Uma.