God and a Malayalam play

From: New Straits Times | Date: February 20, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Arni Abdul Razak
New Straits Times
02-20-2005
God and a Malayalam play
Byline: Arni Abdul Razak
Edition: 2*

I MET two Chackos on a Tuesday afternoon recently and they almost had me in tears.

The elder Chacko, 73-year-old P.T. Chacko, and the younger Chacko (former lawyer and now actor Chacko G. Vadaketh) were talking about their new Malayalam musical drama Aayillyamkavile Ponni.
"It's a sentimental story that I have woven from my memory as a teenager living in a rural village of central Kerala.

"It happened in the 1950s and it's a story on how a woman who was left by her husband opened a ...

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