Malayalam actress-singer Kaviyoor Ponnamma died on Friday, September 20. The 79-year-old was reportedly admitted to a private hospital in Kochi, where she had been undergoing treatment for cancer. Kaviyoor Ponnamma began her career in 1958 with the film Mariakutty , and since then she appeared in numerous films and TV series.
Following her death, many actors from the Malayalam film industry paid tribute by sharing posts on their social media handles. Mammootty Mammootty , who shared the screen with Kaviyoor Ponnamma in movies like Thaniyavarthanam, Anantaram and Mamangam , posted a tribute on Facebook. Mohanlal Mohanlal dropped an elaborate note in Malayalam on Facebook, which roughly translates to, “These words are written in the pain of losing my mother.
My beloved Ponnamma Chechi, who always showered me with as much love as a birth mother for both my character and me as an individual. To our beloved Malayali audience, we were a mother and son. No matter how much time passes, the truth that a mother's son is always her son was echoed through the many films we did together across different eras.
I never had to act as her son with Ponnamma Chechi; it was simply living that role.” He continued, “So many films like Kireedam, Bharatham, Vietnam Colony, Dasharatham, Natturajavu, Vadakkumnathan, Kizhakkunarum Pakshi , and Oppam —in all of them, Ponnamma Chechi embodied motherhood and gave it to me. Even in His Highness Abdullah, where I wasn't her real son, she would run t.