BooksThe actor who passed away last week, made people laugh on and off screen for decades and had lots to say about Kozhikode, its people, and life.It is difficult to think of Mamukkoya without that famous accent of his. In all his films and the lines he is frequently quoted from, the late actor spoke the Kozhikode Malayalam, where nammal (we) became njammal and nenaku (you) turned into anakku. Thaha Madayi, writing Mamukkoya’s memoirs as told to him, would not have wanted to change a syllable. Reading them days after his death, picturing him with folded legs on a chair and narrating the stories of his life, brings an ache. But the words throw a new light around this man, who lived up to 76 and made people laugh on and off screen for decades. “We must raise our children as artists. There is no communalism in art. A...
- 5/1/2023
- by Cris
- The News Minute
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