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Sreenivasan, a Thalassery legend, becomes part of history

Published - December 20, 2025 11:19 am IST - Chennai Actor Sreenivasan during an interaction with The Hindu at his residence on September 4, 2015. | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat The cliched references to Thalassery, a coastal town in Kerala’s Malabar, often centres around the three Cs — cricket, cakes and circus. There is historical validity to these attributions and in the 1980s and 1990s, a touch of notoriety was added too due to a spate of political murders.

Sreenivasan, a Thalassery legend, becomes part of history

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Key Highlights

  • Often a Thalassery native, conscious of the blood and gore, would mention his place as Kannur or Kozhikode before getting more granular and mentioning a village close to Thalassery.
  • The stigma was real before Sreenivasan became a crutch to lean on.
  • “Oh from Thalassery, you know our Sreenivasan’s place,” would be the proud refrain.
  • Renowned Malayalam actor-filmmaker Sreenivasan, passes away | LIVE Updates When the creative genius passed away on Saturday (December 20, 2025), leaving a fine body of celluloid work, the geographical axis between Thalassery and Koothuparambu lost its favourite son.
  • Sreenivasan, 69, had a flair for the theatrical from a young age.
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