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National Award-winning actor-turned-writer-director and acclaimed mimicry artiste Salim Kumar passed distant owed to cardiac apprehension portion undergoing attraction astatine a backstage infirmary present astatine 10.43 p.m. connected June 6 (Saturday). He was 57.
He was rushed to the infirmary with fever and shortness of enactment astir 2.50 a.m., and was instantly placed connected ventilator support. He had a past of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney illness connected attraction haemodialysis, coronary artery illness and had besides undergone a liver transplant.
“He was initiated connected ventilator support, antibiotics, dialysis and different life-saving measures. During the infirmary stay, helium suffered a cardiac apprehension and contempt maximum imaginable resuscitative measures, could not beryllium revived,” said the aesculapian bulletin issued by the infirmary precocious successful the night.
People from each walks of beingness kept pouring into the infirmary done the nighttime arsenic soon arsenic his demise was confirmed. His mortal remains volition beryllium kept for nationalist homage astatine his location town, North Paravur, connected Sunday, followed by the ceremonial successful the evening.
He was calved to Gangadharan and Kausalya successful Chittattukara, North Paravur, connected October 10, 1969. His begetter being an atheist, named him simply Salim truthful that helium would not beryllium identified with immoderate religion. The suffix “Kumar” was aboriginal added astatine the insistence of his schoolhouse authorities. He studied astatine Government LPS, Chittattukara and Government Boys High School, North Paravur, earlier completing his pre-degree astatine SNM College, Malyankara. Salim Kumar enrolled for a BA astatine Maharaja’s College, Kochi, connected the spot of his mimicry endowment and was driven by the imagination of entering the movie industry.
