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M.T. Vasudevan Nair. File. | Photo Credit: SHAJU JOHN Madath Thekkeppat Vasudevan Nair (M.T.) was born in Koodallur, a village in the erstwhile Ponnani taluk in the Malabar district, which was part of the British Madras Presidency, on July 15, 1933. His father, T. Narayanan Nair, worked with a tea plantation company in the then…
Some of Mohanlal’s career-best performances have been aided by MT’s writings. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The angry oracle of Nirmalyam (1973), spitting blood at an idol as a protest against his poverty-ridden life, does not have much in common with Krishna Kurup of Oru Cheru Punchiri (2000), a retired man content with his…
Malayalam writer M.T. Vasudevan Nair. File. | Photo Credit: S. Mahinsha A man of words that will last for posterity, a creator of movies that linger forever in the collective psyche of Malayalis, M.T. Vasudevan Nair was all this and much more. When the genius passed away, aged 91, on Christmas Day, Malayalam literature lost…
