Personal Life
Thoppil Bhasi’s wedding with Amminiamma, the niece of C Shankaranarayanan – ex-Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly was solemnised when he was on the run, a wanted man for the government ! In a moving tribute, aptly titled ‘My Comrade’, Amminiamma, amongst other nuggets, shares her husband’s principle of simplicity and frugality in every aspect of his life. She recalls Udaya studio‘s Kunchacko asking her to buy him a new shirt as he was fed up of seeing Thoppil Bhasi in the same shirt everytime! Thoppil seems to have famously remarked, “Chackochen, I have 8 shirts of the same color and type, and all eight have the same ‘beedi-burn’ patch at the left side of my breast-pocket !” He was the quintessential socialist, according to her. Thoppil Bhasi has 4 sons – Ajayan, Soman, Rajan and Suresh, and daughter Mala . Ajayan went on direct the award-winning Malayalam film Perumthachan in 1991.
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