Later Mani acted as the villain in Vikram's super hit film 'Gemini' and got his break in Tamil film industry with that film, though he has acted in a few Tamil films before.
This was remade in Tamil as 'Kasi' with actor Vikram reprising Mani's role.
He has acted in over 200 films and has won a National award for his portrayal of a blind singer in the film 'Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinna Gnanum'. He started his film career in Malayalam films and has been acting in Malayalam and Tamil films for the past 25 years. Kalabhavan Mani was just 45 when he breathed his last and is survived by wife Doctor Nimmi and a daughter. Popular Malayalam and Tamil Actor Kalabhavan Mani has passed away moments ago in a private hospital in Kochi, where he was admitted for a liver related disease and was undergoing treatment for the past couple of days. “It was lying unattended for two days, so somebody took the opportunity to steal something,” says Dennis.Within a week after the death of director Rajesh Pillai, the film fraternity is in for another rude shock with another untimely and shocking demise. Later, when they landed in Mumbai, they did get their luggage, but many items went missing. As a result, we missed the flight, but our luggage was loaded,” says Dennis. “We were supposed to check in two hours before. Eventually, they arrived 45 minutes before the departure at the boarding gate, but were denied permission to embark. They checked in their luggage, and wandered about. Meanwhile, after 25 days, Dennis, Ratheesh, Saritha, Swapna, Baby Shalini and her father Babu went to Frankfurt airport to return to Kerala. “Ever since then whenever Soman would meet me, he would call me his guardian angel,” says Dennis. “We were moments away from a major accident.” His colleagues thanked him profusely. “The front tyre, on the left side, was completely shredded,” he says. And when he stepped out Dennis got a shock.
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So Dennis told the driver to stop the vehicle. But I had an intuition that something was wrong.” I was not sure whether it had anything to do with the car.
“And we were having a lively conversation. “I was sitting in front, while the other three were at the back,” says Dennis. One day, in September, 1984, director Joshy as well as actors, Soman, Saritha and Dennis were travelling in a car near Berlin. “But none of us will ever forget Noor.”ĭennis will also not forget the location shoot in Germany for Minimol Vathicanil. “It did reasonably well at the box office,” says Dennis. Then Baiju got another producer, a new baby and completed the film. He upped and returned to Mumbai with his gang members. When the director suggested getting another baby Noor refused. Meanwhile, the shooting came to a sudden halt because the baby fell ill. “But Noor did not care a damn about AMMA,” says Dennis. The organisation launched an investigation.
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But, later, he complained about the threats to the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA). The frightened actor returned with the hoodlums, and ensured that he finished his schedule on time. When they landed, they went and met Mani, and threatened him. He ordered ten henchman to come from Mumbai. When Noor heard that Mani had gone to another film set, at Mundakayam, he became incensed. On the day he was supposed to join the set, he went missing. Meanwhile, there were other dramatic developments. I had a suspicion that Noor was connected to the underworld in Mumbai.” “From the beginning Noor had issues with Baiju,” says Dennis. But when director Baiju Kottarakkara suggested getting a local baby to play the main lead, Noor insisted on his baby. The film was loosely based on the 1994 Hollywood hit, Baby’s Day Out. But whenever Dennis went to meet Noor, at an apartment in Kochi, there would be a rifle in plain sight, on the table in front of him.