Veteran Malayalam actress T Vasanthi dead

Popular Malayalam stage, TV and film actress Thodupuzha Vasanthi died yesterday, according to family sources. She was 65. Vasanthi was ailing for a while, they said. In a film career that began in 1975, Vasanthi acted in over 450 films and was mostly seen doing side roles and even negative ones. Some of her most popular films include Yavanika, Poochakkoru Mookkuthi, Nirakootu and Godfather. She shared screen space with all the leading lights of the Malayalam film industry. However, after she was diagnosed with cancer, she was mostly in and out of hospital.