Hugely popular theatre director Prasanth Narayanan passes away

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 28 (IANS) Hugely popular theatre director Prasanth Narayanan, who was unwell for a while breathed his last here on Thursday at a state-run hospital.Narayanan was a multi-faceted personality and was a play write who scripted 25 plays, a kathak artiste and a director.The 51-year-old Narayanan is best known for directing the play ‘Chayamukhi’, which saw actor Mohanlal and actor turned CPI-M legislator Mukesh acting in it.He was admitted to the state-run hospital here following breathing problems and he passed away in the afternoon.Hailing from the capital city's suburbs, the picturesque Vellayani, he began his artistic career Kathakali under C.G. Nampoothiri.As a teenager he penned his first work and has had no reason to look back as in a career spanning three decades, he won a Sangeetha Nataka Academy award for the best playwright in 2003.--IANSsg/kvd

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