Actor and mimicry star Kalabhavan Navas died on Friday night. Actor Vinod Kovoor has revealed that Navas had felt chest pain on the sets of the film he was acting in, and a doctor was called.
He said in a note posted on Facebook that he had gone to the morgue yesterday and seen Navas’ body. He wrote on Facebook that Navas’ eyes were slightly open and that he would not close them without seeing his loved ones.
Vinod Kovoor’s words
Navasika…. What sort of departure is this…
When I heard the news, I wished it was fake news. But……
When I saw the lifeless body in front of the Kalamassery morgue at 11 pm last night, I first thought that he was pretending to sleep.
I patted his cheek and called out ‘Navasika’. His eyes were slightly open then. Those eyes would not close without seeing all his loved ones. After taking his lifeless body to the morgue, on the way home, all I could think of was Navasika. After acting on the film set at Chottanikkara until 5 am, he reached his hotel room, completed his real-life role and disappeared into the mist of time. That’s human life. The life of each of us is a bubble that can burst at any moment.
He felt chest pain on the set and had called the doctor, but thinking that the shoot would be affected, he immersed himself in his acting work instead of going to the hospital.
He must have thought that he would go after the shoot. But by then, the clown with no sense of the scene came and took his life. I thought, ‘what if’ he had gone to see the doctor when the pain started. There is no place for ‘what-ifs’ here. Navasikka’s time came and Navasikka left. I remember hugging Navasikka, who was praised by everyone for singing and showing different comedy at the last AMMA family gathering.
Navaska had a brotherly love for me, more than that, for several stage programs together. It is hard to believe that Navasikka is now only in memories. May Padachon Navasikka’s grave be widened.
I share the family’s pain. He had to stay in the morgue all night last night… Today is the post mortem… I can’t bear it Navasikka ‘
I will go to your house in Aluva in the afternoon. To have one more look. I am really scared. Navasika’s death is at the age of fifty-one. Life is without any guarantees for each of us. When the role is over, one should leave the stage,