Indian film director and cartoonist (1958–2022)
Karuvannur Puthanveettil Sasi (Malayalam: കെ. പി. ശശി; 14 March 1958 – 25 December 2022) was an Indian film director and cartoonist from Bengaluru.
Life and career.
Sasi's father K. Damodaran (25 February 1912 – 3 July 1976) was a Marxist theoretician and writer and one of the founder leaders of the Communist Party of India. He 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" and "Voices from a Disaster", "Fabricated!", "America America", "Resisting Coastal Invasion" and "Development at Gunpoint".
His feature films include "Ilayum Mullum", on the social and psychological violence on women in Kerala. "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, and "Ssh..Silence Please", a silent comedy film on development. He was a founder member of ViBGYOR Film Festival.
Sasi died in Thrissur, Kerala, on 25 December 2022, at the age of 64.
Filmography.
As cartoonist.
2004 – "InPosters"
Books.
2000 – "When the Birds Stop Singing"
References.
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