What is amazing is that the audience never realised that she was so ill. She looked just as cheerful in one of the last TV serials of hers I saw. Her doctor says that she had told him that she be not given any treatment that will spoil her looks as she had to continue acting. (That's her in the last work she did, Amma thamburatti)
She was cremated with State honours near Trivandrum. The huge crowd that gathered to pay their last respects to her showed how much the audience in Kerala loved her. She happens to be, inspite of being a Tamilian by birth, Kerala's own tragedy queen - a young girl who was forced to stick to tinsel world on her famous mother's wishes, a woman who had to abort her baby on her husband's decree because it would spoil her career... She has set aside a part of her fortune to be given as fellowships for upcoming/struggling artistes.
She was cremated with State honours near Trivandrum. The huge crowd that gathered to pay their last respects to her showed how much the audience in Kerala loved her. She happens to be, inspite of being a Tamilian by birth, Kerala's own tragedy queen - a young girl who was forced to stick to tinsel world on her famous mother's wishes, a woman who had to abort her baby on her husband's decree because it would spoil her career... She has set aside a part of her fortune to be given as fellowships for upcoming/struggling artistes.
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