Mohanlal sends birthday wishes to revered scenarist MT Vasudevan Nair

Mollywood's 'Complete Actor' Mohanlal sends birthday wishes to writer-scenarist-filmmaker

MT Vasudevan Nair

. The veteran writer turned 87 today. Mohanlal has wished the wordsmith sharing a rare picture taken with him years back. "My heartfelt birthday wishes to MT Sir," Mohanlal penned. Check out the post.<iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FActorMohanlal%2Fposts%2F3120196631369345&width=500" width="500" height="417" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe>Mohanlal and MT Vasudevan Nair have worked together in many movies together including '

Thavazhvaram

', 'Sadayam', 'Uyarangalil', 'Amrutham Gamaya', 'Anubandham', and 'Abhayam Thedi' among others.MT Vasudevan Nair is one of the prominent writers who has shaped the modern Malayalam literature as well as the Malayalam cinema. His debut novel 'Naalukettu' won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. He was 23 when he penned the novel.Affectionately addressed as 'MT', the writer has scripted for many iconic movies and has also directed a few movies. He has also won the National Film Award for best screenplay four times for the movies '

Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha

', 'Kadavu', 'Sadayam', and 'Parinayam. He has also won the Kerala State Film Awards several times. Some of his best movies include 'Kadavu', 'Parinayam', 'Olavum Theeravum', 'Perumthachan', 'Pazhassi Raja' among others.MT Vasudevan Nair is also revered amongst his contemporaries. MT's directorials include 'Nirmalyam', 'Bandhanam', 'Varikuzhi', 'Kadavu' etc.Meanwhile, the ace scenarist and filmmaker was in news for ‘

Randamoozham

’. ‘Randamoozham’ is a novel scripted by MT Vasudevan Nair and VA Srikumar was about to make a movie on it, but the former objected. In 2014, the duo signed an agreement to make the movie. But even five years after the agreement, the movie didn’t progress and MT asked to return his script and went the legal way.