K. P. Sasi
Indian film director and cartoonist (1958–2022)
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Karuvannur Puthanveettil Sasi[1] (Malayalam: കെ. പി. ശശി; 14 March 1958 – 25 December 2022) was an Indian film director and cartoonist from Bengaluru.
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| Died | 25 December 2022 (aged 64) Thrissur, Kerala, India |
| Occupations | Film director and cartoonist |
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.[2][3]
His feature films include Ilayum Mullum, on the social and psychological violence on women in Kerala.[4] 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[5] is a silent comedy film on development.
Sasi died in Thrissur, Kerala, on 25 December 2022, at the age of 64.[6][7]
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.[8][9]
Filmography
As director
- 1998 – Ek Alag Mausam
- 1991 – Ilayum Mullum
