Sasi
Kalinga,
the
senior
Mollywood
actor,
who
rose
to
fame
with
his
performances
in
the
popular
Malayalam
movies
like
Pranchiyettan
And
The
Saint,
Amen,
Vellimoonga
and
so
on,
passed
away.
The
actor
breathed
his
last
at
a
private
hospital
in
his
hometown
Kozhikode
today
(April
7,
2020).
Sasi
Kalinga
was
suffering
from
liver
disease
from
the
past
few
years.
The
59-year-old,
who
was
born
as
V
Chandra
Kumar,
is
the
son
of
Kozhikode
Kunnamangalath
Chandrasekharan
Nair
and
Sukumari
Amma.
He
is
survived
by
wife
Prabhavati.
Sasi
Kalinga,
who
began
his
acting
career
as
a
theatre
artist,
has
acted
in
around
250
films.
Sasi
Kalinga
entered
the
field
of
acting
and
joined
a
theatre
group
with
the
help
of
his
uncle
Vikraman
Nair,
after
completing
his
diploma
in
automobile
engineering.
Instead
of
his
official
name
Chandra
Kumar,
the
actor
chose
the
name
Sasi,
which
was
his
nickname
among
family
and
friends
as
his
official
stage
name.
It
was
the
popular
director
Ranjith
who
added
Kalinga,
which
was
the
name
of
Sasi's
theatre
group
along
with
his
name.
The
actor
established
himself
as
a
leading
theatre
artist
within
a
career
span
of
around
25
years
and
has
acted
in
around
500
stage
plays.
Sasi
Kalinga
made
his
movie
debut
in
1998,
with
the
movie
Thakarachenda,
which
had
actor-writer
Sreenivasan
in
the
lead
role.
After
an
unsuccessful
first
inning
in
cinema,
Sasi
went
back
to
the
theater.
The
actor
made
a
comeback
to
cinema
with
Paleri
Manikyam,
the
Mammootty-Ranjith
movie
in
which
he
appeared
in
the
role
of
a
police
officer.
Later
he
rose
to
fame
with
the
comical
roles
in
the
popular
films
including
Pranchiyettan
And
The
Saint,
Amen,
Indian
Rupee,
Vellimoonga,
Amar
Akbar
Anthony,
and
so
on.
Sasi
Kalinga
was
last
seen
in
VM
Vinu's
Dhyan
Sreenivasan-starrer,
Kutti
Maama.