‘This may have been the first time my picture was printed’; Mammootty is back in Maharajas

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It was not the great actor of Malayali who stood in the library, but that old young man named Muhammadukutty, who crossed the backwaters and came to college from the land of Chemb.

Mammootty came to Maharaja’s College for the shooting of Kannur Squad. Near Actor Ramesh Pisharadi | Photo: Screengrab

NoMammootty with the heartwarming scenes of going back to college where he dreamed of the story and the characters in the past. Malayalam’s favorite actor recalled his Maharaja days through a video posted on Instagram. It was seen by lakhs of people within hours.

The video is a memoir of his visit to Maharajas College for the shooting of the new film ‘Kannur Squad’. The description of this is also Mammootty. ‘I never thought I would come here for a movie shoot. That also happened after many years’ – Mammootty’s words with the defender vehicle entering the Maharaja’s shadow. Then the video becomes a signature sheet of memories.

It was not the great actor of Malayali who stood in the library, but that old young man named Muhammadukutty, who crossed the backwaters and came to college from the land of Chemb. In the video, Mammootty describes the Maharaja’s library as ‘a place where Muhammad Kutty, a non-filmmaker, got to know the stories and characters and danced in his dreams’. He also shares the climax of perusing college magazines out of curiosity. A magazine with a black and white picture from history to a colorful time… On its yellowed page, under the text Drama Club Leader, is a picture of a dusty moustached man – name Mammootty. ‘My picture was probably printed for the first time in… my college magazine…’ Mammootty recalled with emotion.

He says that his companions enthusiastically inquired about his college days, adding another. ‘Times change…the excitement of college, it never will…ever!’

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