If Sreenivasan had only ever written Sandesam (1991), a satire about ideological hypocrisy in Kerala politics, or played one half of the jobless duo in Nadodikkattu (1987), which drew on the unemployment crisis driving out the state’s youth, or made Vadakkunokkiyanthram (1989), a sharp send-up of the Malayali man’s insecurities, he would have earned a place among the icons of Malayalam cinema. But the actor-writer-director, 69, who died last week, combined his rapier wit with remarkable productivity,........

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