K.P. Sasi
Karuvannur Puthanveettil Sasi (Malayalam: കെ. പി. ശശി; 14 March 1958 – 25 December 2022) was an Indian film director and cartoonist from Bengaluru.
K.P. Sasi
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- Name
- K.
- Died
- 25 December 2022
- Place of death
- Thrissur, Kerala, India
- Occupation
- Film director and cartoonist
- Born
- K.P. Sasi was born on 14 March 1958. · Thrissur.
- Nationality
- India
- Languages
- Hindi
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Karuvannur Puthanveettil Sasi (Malayalam: കെ. പി. ശശി; 14 March 1958 – 25 December 2022) was an Indian film director and cartoonist from Bengaluru.
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K.P. Sasi was an Indian cartoonist and film director. Born in Thrissur, the cartoonist died in Thrissur. Languages used include Hindi.
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• Name — K. P. Sasi • Died — 25 December 2022 • Place of death — Thrissur, Kerala, India • Occupation — Film director and cartoonist
Life and career
Life and career
Sasi started working as a cartoonist while being a student at JNU during the late seventies. He started experimenting with films on 8mm during the early eighties. His documentaries include A Valley Refuses to Die, We Who Make History, Living in Fear, In the Name of Medicine, Voices from a Disaster, Fabricated!, America America, Resisting Coastal Invasion and Development at Gunpoint. His feature films include Ilayum Mullum, on the social and psychological violence on women in Kerala. Ek Alag Mausam (A Different Season) (Hindi: एक अलग मौसम) is a 2003 Hindi language movie directed by Sasi and starring Nandita Das, Anupam Kher, Renuka Shahane, Rajit Kapur, Arundathi Nag, Sreelatha and Sally Whittaker. Ssh..Silence Please is a silent comedy film on development. Sasi died in Thrissur, Kerala, on 25 December 2022, at the age of 64. As part of the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy’s Smrithianjali series, the book The Third Eye of Human Rights, edited by Mustafa Desamangalam, presents the life story of Sasi.
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As director
• 1998 – Ek Alag Mausam • 1991 – Ilayum Mullum
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K.P. Sasi was born at Thrissur.
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- 1.Praveen, S. r. His camera speaks truth to power. The Hindu. 10 December 2012.
- 2.Director KP Sasi passes away.
- 3.Film, documentary maker KP Sasi passes away.
- 4.K. P. Sasi. Ilayum Mullum — Suicides in 'God`s Own Country'. Labour File. 2006.
- 5.The Hindu : When silence is golden. www.thehindu.com.
- 6.Director KP Sasi passes away
- 7.Veteran filmmaker KP Sasi dies at 64(1994).
- 8.Desamangalam, Mustafa. മനുഷ്യവകാശങ്ങളുടെ മൂന്നാംകണ്ണ്: കെ പി ശശിയുടെ ചലച്ചിത്രജീവിതം. Kerala State Chalachithra Akademy. 2023.
- 9.മണ്മറഞ്ഞ പ്രതിഭകൾക്ക് മേളയുടെ ആദരം. Malayala Manorama. 2023-12-11.
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