Malayalam superstar Mammootty turned a year older today. As the actor turns 70, he seems to be simply getting younger. With multiple movies in the pipeline, the actor is quite active on Instagram account and keeps posting pictures from the photoshoot. At a time, when there is so much gloom and uncertainty around us, it gives us the much-needed comfort to see Mammootty, who is 70, going strong and trying to make the best of opportunities presented to him.
You can call him him blessed, but at the same time, without certain discipline and sheer will, it is impossible to reverse the natural order of things and continue to perform age-defying stunts in movies.
Mammootty has been acting in movies for 50 years now. But, during the early days of his career, a director told him to quit movies. “It is better you go back to practising law. You are not cut out for movies. You can’t act or dance. But, Mammukka kept quiet and he didn’t react at the time,” actor Kalabhavan Prajod recalled during a stage show. Can you imagine what a great loss it would have been for the Indian film industry if Mammootty had taken to heart that director’s comments and lost his determination to pursue cinema? Five decades, and over 400 films, three National awards, one Padma Shri and two honorary doctorate degrees later, Mammootty is still busy churning out an average of five to seven films a year.
At 70, Mammootty shows no signs of slowing down. He is one of the busiest actors in Malayalam cinema. He averages about five films a year and manages to do a couple of films in other languages, mainly in Tamil. How does he do it? “I don’t know what’s the secret. But, I have this (insatiable) urge to act in movies. And that urge is not dying. I pray that it should only die with me. I’m a greedy actor. I’m always hungry. I will keep digging to discover how much more potential I have in me,” Mammootty had said.
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