Ravichandran dies
For those of my generation, sridhar’s kadhalikka neramillai defined the onset of puberty and teen hood.
This was the 1960s, when sivaji and mgr ruled the roost, with Gemini, jaishanker getting their bit roles. Then came a multicast kathalikka neramilla which with no name heroes but a good side kick support, shot into fame by running 25 unsubisidized weeks all over tamil nadu and parts of kerala.
In fact I saw it in kerala, in a packed kottai theatre.
The story itself was simple. Two ordinary guys fall in love with a miserly miserable rich man (t s baliah) ‘s daughter – fresh faced kanchana & rajshree proving themselves to be perfect air heads.
How they work around the wiles of the father, and get their men in the end is the whole movie.
Nagesh sacchu topped the comedy part, but the whole movie was a comedy, and ravichandran, just landed from Malaysia, provided a mystic aura as a foreign returned tamil. Unfortunately, ravi was not a great actor, and I think, he counted more failures than successes.
He had a scandalous marriage with Sheila. He had a first wife, an iyengar, whom he asked to divorce (she wouldn’t) and hence, due to india’s convoluted marriage rules, Sheila and ravi ‘converted’ to islam to justify their union. Their son george, is I think, trying his luck in the t.v. field these days.
Ravi, I found aged very well. Recently saw him in a forgettable tamil movie. Mrs K pointed out to an older character, and told me that it was ravi. With a handlebar moustache and all, he looked handsome as ever, and even in his late years, could be a lady killer.
Kathalikka neramillai, is timeless. And for that reason alone, ravichandran will be remembered as an actor. May his soul rest in peace.
For those of my generation, sridhar’s kadhalikka neramillai defined the onset of puberty and teen hood.
This was the 1960s, when sivaji and mgr ruled the roost, with Gemini, jaishanker getting their bit roles. Then came a multicast kathalikka neramilla which with no name heroes but a good side kick support, shot into fame by running 25 unsubisidized weeks all over tamil nadu and parts of kerala.
In fact I saw it in kerala, in a packed kottai theatre.
The story itself was simple. Two ordinary guys fall in love with a miserly miserable rich man (t s baliah) ‘s daughter – fresh faced kanchana & rajshree proving themselves to be perfect air heads.
How they work around the wiles of the father, and get their men in the end is the whole movie.
Nagesh sacchu topped the comedy part, but the whole movie was a comedy, and ravichandran, just landed from Malaysia, provided a mystic aura as a foreign returned tamil. Unfortunately, ravi was not a great actor, and I think, he counted more failures than successes.
He had a scandalous marriage with Sheila. He had a first wife, an iyengar, whom he asked to divorce (she wouldn’t) and hence, due to india’s convoluted marriage rules, Sheila and ravi ‘converted’ to islam to justify their union. Their son george, is I think, trying his luck in the t.v. field these days.
Ravi, I found aged very well. Recently saw him in a forgettable tamil movie. Mrs K pointed out to an older character, and told me that it was ravi. With a handlebar moustache and all, he looked handsome as ever, and even in his late years, could be a lady killer.
Kathalikka neramillai, is timeless. And for that reason alone, ravichandran will be remembered as an actor. May his soul rest in peace.
