Mammootty’s love for cars and driving is well known. ‘If you become a driver, you should be Mammootty’s, don’t take any job. Just sit in the back seat. The old man will drive the car…’ is the general comment about the megastar. Now the video of Mammootty driving 2,300 km in Australia is going viral.
The journey was from Sydney to Canberra and from there to Melbourne and then to Tasmania. Mammootty was the full-time driver on this trip. Robert Kuriakos, who heads Mammootty’s philanthropic activities, shared the footage of the actor driving on social media.
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A quote from an earlier feature about Mammooka that sticks in my mind. The text in it, prepared by traveling with Mammooka, was: ‘Kalame…. It is Mammootty who drives the car calling me Pimpe…’ On this journey through the Australian road, the same Mammooka was beside me and Kala was behind him. Sydney to Canberra. From there to Melbourne and then on to Tasmania.
Mamooka was driving very calmly through the meadows and huge trees. It has been heard that Mammooka often gets angry when he sees others breaking the rules while driving. But perhaps because travelers in Australia are not like ours, Mammooka never once got angry. Instead, he hummed, was happy to see the rain, remembered his college days, and joked a lot. There are three of us. Mammooka’s best friend Rajasekharan, Sulphath madam and myself.
Mammooka drove the two coasts of Tasmania, an island state larger than Kerala. From Hobart to Launceston, from there via Swansea, Port Arthur and back to Hobart. Mammooka drove the car tirelessly, but excited with every kilometer. With Roshit’s brand new car with number plate ‘DON007’ driving around Tasmania in two days, Mammooka drove a total distance of two thousand three hundred kilometers on the first leg of his visit to Australia!
Another miracle. Mammooka knew the traffic rules here better than me who has been driving in Australia for 10 years. In between we argued over some traffic law. Mammooka did not give up. Finally, sitting in the car, I called an experienced officer from the Tasmanian Department of Transport (Sunil Nair) to clear my doubts. Mammooka was right. We had Kiran James in Sydney to introduce the locations, Madanan Chellappan in Melbourne for the Great Ocean Drive and Kiran Jaya Prakash for the Coastal Drive including Phillip Island. But Mammooka became a complete Australian resident by making them all spectators. So some good days, good moments, scenes that I struggled to believe that it was not a movie running before my eyes.. Thanks to God and time.. and to my dear Mammooka who made me a companion.
English Summary: Mammootty Drove Car 2300 KM in Australia