V. Sambasivan

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (December 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Velayudhan Sambasivan (4 July 1929 – 23 April 1996) was a famous "Kadhaprasangam" artist of Kerala, India. He was born on 4 July 1929 in Chavara Thekkumbhagom in Kollam district, as the eldest son of Meloottu Velayudhan and Sarada. He had seven siblings. After schooling in his native village he joined Sree Narayana College, Kollam for higher studies where he was associated with the Communist Party of India and its student wing AISF. His gift for singing and acting earned him the name of an artist very early in his life. He started his career as a teacher but quit the job to become a full-time artiste. With his inimitable style in story-telling, he soon became one of the most popular artists of Kerala with immense mass appeal. He presented more than 50 stories on stage including Shakespeare's Othello^[1] and Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.^[2] Being a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) he was arrested and imprisoned in 1975, during the Indian Emergency declared by the then regime headed by Indira Gandhi. He died of lung cancer on 23 April 1996, aged 67.

He has acted in a feature film 'Pallamkuzhi' and in a documentary on poet Kumaran Asan.^[3]

V. Sambasivan was married to Subhadra. His eldest son Dr. Vasanthakumar Sambasivan, a Professor of Chemistry at Sree Narayana College, Kollam follows his father's way.^[4] Other than Vasanthakumar, he has three more sons named Prasanth, Jinaraj and Jesus, and a daughter named Aishwarya. Mrs. Subhadra Sambasivan died on 20 February 2021 aged 80.

Discography

1. Aayisha
2. Anna Karenina
3. Aneesiya
4. Artham
5. Chandanakattil
6. Devalokam
7. Deshasnehi
8. Divyatheertham
9. Don Santhamayi Ozhukunnu
10. Irupatham Noottandu
11. Jalasechanam
12. Karamazov Sahodaranamar
13. Kumaranasan
14. Kuttavum Sikshayum
15. Kochu Seetha
16. Laabham Laabham
17. Nellinte Geetham
18. Othello
19. Prathi
20. Premasilpi
21. Pathivrathayude Kamukan
22. Pulliman
23. Romeo Juliet
24. Rani
25. Samkranthi
26. Sanaatta
27. Sidhartha
28. Sre Narayana Gurudevan
29. Tharavadinte Manam
30. Uyirthezhunellpu
31. Vilakku Vangam
32. Vyasanum Marxum
33. Yanthram
34. Z
35. 1857

References[]

This theatrical biography is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t

This Indian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t