Malayalam actor Nedumudi Venu passes away at 73

In a career spanning more than four decades and over 500 films, Venu has portrayed a wide range of characters and also won three National awards

Nedumudi Venu, one of Malayalam cinema’s most versatile character actors, passed away on Monday afternoon. He was 73. He was admitted to a private hospital on Sunday following liver-related ailments.

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In a career spanning more than four decades and over 500 films, Venu has portrayed a wide range of characters that portrayed his histrionic skills. After proving his mettle on the stage, being a member of Kavalam Narayana Panicker’s drama troupe, he made his film debut with G. Aravindan’s Thambu in 1978. He showed the first signs of his brilliance a year later, as Chellappanshari in Padmarajan’s Thakara.