M.N.NAMBIAR PASSES AWAY

Veteran actor of Tamil films who excelled in Villain character in Tamil,Telugu and other languages, M.N.Nambiar passed away peacefully at a private nursing home after he complained of chest pain. Nambiar, who was 89 had acted in more than 1000 films. Though he was a villain in Tamil films, his heart was centered around Lord Ayyappa and he breathed his last leaving all the Ayyappa Devotees in the Tamil month Karthigai, an auspicious month for Lord Ayyappa devotees to observe fasting for 40 days before they to have darshan of the Lord.

Mr,M.N.Nambiar has acted in an English film Jungle, which was released in the year 1952. Besides appearing in villain role with MGR and Shivaji Ganesan, the actor had done a tremendous role with Bhagyaraj in Thooral Ninnupochchu. He did the role of a stunt-man who fights for the marriage of Bhagyaraj who seeks asylum in his hut. He appeared with long hair and mustache in the film and finally wins in his character. The film was a successful one, since, it was written by Bhagyaraj, but the manner in which M.N.Nambiar did the role could not be compared who stole the show when the film was released.

A devotee who observed that, no one can match the devotion that the actor had with the Lord. Even his servants in the house would always utter the Lord's name before if they consume, even water.

The actor was a voracious reader National Geographical magazines and when he flew in an elecopter with some of the devotees over the Lord Ayyappa's Sabarimala, he just requested the pilot not to take the plan over the abode of Lord Ayyappa. He never fed non-vegetarian items to two of his German breed dogs. He wanted always to observe vegetarianism. "That is why my dogs never bark at others" remembers this writer when he had gone for his residence at Gopalapuram in Chennai.