Thiruvananthapuram: Madhu Navati, the great actor who has won immortality in the minds of the Malayalees through his role models, Madhavan Nair. He says that today is his 89th birthday according to English date, but he considers Visakham Nakshatra in Kanni month as his birthday. There will be no other celebrations today except for a stew. People including CPM State Secretary MV Govindan came to the house yesterday with birthday greetings.
Madhu told Kerala Kaumudi that she will act in films only if she gets a character that satisfies her heart. Fathers and mothers have no chance in Malayalam cinema. I will not stop doing a character for the name anymore. He says that he has no desire to act. Madhu has acted in over 400 films and has directed 12 films. Produced 15 films.
My favorite pastime now is watching old pictures and reading a book until dawn. It was three o’clock in the morning when I slept last night. Get up at eleven o’clock in the day after sleeping exactly eight hours. Yoga is a must every day. There is no particular diet yet. He has been at home for three years with the arrival of the Kovid period. Even though the threat of Kovid is over, nothing big is coming out.
Joshi directed Suresh Gopi film Pappan was last seen. The background music in the movies is so loud that the dialogues cannot be heard. That’s why most of the movies are watched and the TV is turned off within twenty minutes. Madhu taunts that the background music has become the foreground music and all the films coming out are detective films. I am happy when I think of all the jokes with the co-actors. He says that it is sad to remember that most of them are no longer alive.