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Veteran filmmaker Sathyan Anthikad is among those who consciousness a dense vacuum arsenic actor-director-screenwriter Sreenivasan passed away connected Saturday (December 20, 2025), for the duo played what could beryllium termed a lifelong innings that created a abstraction of its ain successful the Malayalam cinema universe. For implicit 4 decades, they kept talking to each different of each and sundry and “cinema happened successful between” successful Mr. Anthikad’s ain words.
They had shared a enslaved truthful beardown that Mr. Anthikad ran abbreviated of words portion reacting to the quality of Mr. Sreenivasan’s passing. “I’m successful a concern wherever I can’t respond. We person had a beardown enslaved with each other. I utilized to sojourn him erstwhile successful 2 weeks (since helium became ill). I ne'er thought helium would permission this soon,” Mr. Anthikad told reporters.
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Mr. Anthikad remembered that Mr. Sreenivasan had told him precocious “he has had enough”. “I assured him helium would travel back,” the filmmaker said. Though helium tried to talk thing astir the evergreen Malayalam satire Sandesham successful the discourse of the caller section assemblage elections successful Kerala, Mr. Anthikad choked connected words and could not implicit his sentence.
On aggregate occasions, Mr. Anthikad had termed his narration with Mr. Sreenivasan ‘special’. “Though I person worked with galore scenarists, the enslaved I stock with Sreenivasan is truly special. We person perpetually remained successful interaction each along. We ever bask the clip we beryllium unneurotic and make our scripts done endless discussions. The cinema happens determination successful between,” Mr. Anthikad said successful an earlier interrogation with The Hindu connected the juncture of their reunion with the 2018 movie Njan Prakashan for which they collaborated aft an interval of 16 years.
Mr. Anthikad has said that the interruption was a deliberate prime made by some of them connected nonrecreational grounds. “Sreeni utilized to jokingly accidental that I near him erstwhile I recovered scriptwriters similar Lohithadas and Reghunath Paleri. The information is that Sreeni lone told maine we should instrumentality a interruption arsenic we we had started reasoning alike and making akin films. Though we were readying lone a hiatus of 1 oregon 2 years, it ended up 16 years,’ helium said.
Mr. Anthikad has said that it was ever a refreshing acquisition to enactment with Mr. Sreenivasan. “I had to enactment with Sreenivasan to get myself recharged,” helium said once.
Mr. Anthikad has remembered that Mr. Sreenivasan’s representation and celebrated consciousness of humour had lone brightened adjacent erstwhile his wellness was deteriorating. “Someone asked him however was his health. Pat came the reply, ‘illness is going well’,” Mr. Anthikad said successful a caller interview.
Mr. Anthikad has joined hands with Mr. Sreenivasan for respective evergreen Malayalam hits, including TP Balagopalan MA, Nadodikkattu, Gandhinagar 2nd Street, Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu and Sandesham. The films often wrapped mundane struggles and joys of the communal radical successful beardown layers of societal satire, attracting assemblage of each sections.
