Film fraternity pays homage to Thoppil Ajayan

Many renowned artistes and technicians poured in to Kalabhavan Theatre in Thiruvananthapuram recently, as Mollywood adieu to the

director of Perumthachan

,

Thoppil Ajayan

, for the last time. Many of his friends at the venue remembered Ajayan as someone with a great sense of humour and love for humanity. Filmmaker TV Chandran said, “From the year 1990 to 1995, we were very much in touch. He had even accompanied me into a forest for about 15 days to film one of my documentaries. He was a warm personality.” Pannyan Raveendran, Kodikkunnil Suresh, Pramod Payyannur, Abhradita Banerjee, Radha Lekshmi, P Sreekumar and Mahesh Panju were a few others who dropped in to pay their last respects to Ajayan.

Photo courtesy: Satheeshan Karicheri