Malayalam actor Jagathy makes a comeback

Thiruvananthapuram: Comedian Jagathy Sreekumar, after surviving a near fatal accident, returned in front of the camera after almost a year on Monday when he met press photographers and cameramen from TV channels.

The meeting was organised by his family for the media, which had been clamouring to interview him.

Sitting in a wheelchair, Sreekumar did not answer any questions from the mediapersons. Instead, he just smiled. He was wheeled back into his house after 10 minutes.

Later, his son Rajkumar said doctors were amazed at his father’s miraculous recovery. “They said that it will take another two years for him to recover fully. At the moment, he cannot speak properly. At times, he says a few words but apart from that, his memory has come back to normal and he remembers and identifies all people.”

“He sings sometimes and doctors are now trying to make him speak through singing. He enacts some scenes from his popular films when asked to,” Rajkumar added.

The comedian was seriously injured in a road accident in the wee hours of March 10 last year near Kozhikode in Kerala while going to a shoot.

On April 12, 2012, the actor underwent four major surgeries after being airlifted from Kozhikode to Christian Medical College, Vellore in Tamil Nadu.

In a career starting in the early 1970s, Sreekumar acted in over 1,100 films. In 2011, of the 70 Malayalam films that were screened in theatres, Sreekumar acted in 24.