M.T. Vasudevan Nair

M.T. Vasudevan Nair

Indian, Film Director
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Madath Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair (born 1933 July 15 ), popularly known as MT, is an Indian author, screenplay writer and film director. He is a prolific and versatile writer in modern Malayalam literature, and is one of the masters of post-Independence Indian literature. At the age of 20, as a chemistry undergraduate, he won the prize for the best short story in Malayalam at World Short Story Competition conducted by The New York Herald Tribune. His first major novel Naalukettu (Ancestral Home- translated to English as The Legacy), written at the age of 23, won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958. His other novels include Manju (Mist), Kaalam (Time), Asuravithu (The Prodigal Son - translated to English as The Demon Seed) and Randamoozham (The Second Turn). The deep emotional experiences of his early days have gone into the making of MT's novels. Most of his works are oriented towards the basic Malayalam family structure and culture and many of them were path-breaking in the history of Malayalam literature. His three seminal novels on life in the matriarchal family in Kerala are Naalukettu, Asuravithu, and Kaalam. Randamoozham, which retells the story of the Mahabharatha from the point of view of Bhimasena, is widely credited as his masterpiece.

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M.T. Vasudevan Nair was born on Saturday, 15 July 1933 in Kudallur, Palakkad, British India. He was best known as a film director. Nair's country of citizenship (nationality) was Indian. He died on Wednesday, 25 December 2024 in Kozhikode, Kerala, India at the age of 91. He had black eyes and bald hair (color). His zodiac star sign was Cancer.

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Kudallur, Palakkad, British India
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25 December 2024
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Kozhikode, Kerala, India
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Sithara, Calicut, India
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M.T. Vasudevan Nair is known for his role in the film The Mahabharata: Part 2 (2022) as (novel).

He is also known for his role in the film Mahabharata: Part 1 (2020) as (novel).

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