Thoppil Bhasi’s wife dies at 85

KOTTAYAM:

Amminiamma

, 85, wife of the late Thoppil Bhasi who was one of the doyens of

Malayalam theatre

and played an important role in the

Communist

movement in Kerala, passed away at a private hospital in

Parumala

where she was under treatment on Thursday.


Amminiamma was the niece of Communist leader R Shankaranarayanan Thampi who was the first speaker of the Kerala legislative assembly.

Amminiamma had married Bhasi in 1951 while he was in hiding in the Sooranad murder case. One of their four sons, Ajayan, went on to direct the award-winning film Perumthachan.

The children of the couple are late Ajayan and Rajan, Adv Soman (playwright), Mala and Suresh.

Funeral will be held at her residential premises in Vallikunnam in Alappuzha district at 2pm on Friday.