His next ‘release’, he says, is the Indran’s starrer Lona which he did before Kammatti Padam. Very unlike the prosthetic costume teeth with which he made his film debut as Balan Chettan in Rajeev Ravi’s Kammatti Padam. When he landed the Kammatti Padam role he was working at the Chambakkara Fish Market and doing theatre. In Kammatti Padam, Rajeev Ravi’s raw take on the lives of those who live, sometimes kill, and often die on the margins of a city, Mani’s Balan is stunningly essayed. From theatre to an explosive debut as Balan Chettan in Kammatti Padam Manikandan Achari is the man of the momentManikandan Achari’s smile shows a perfect row of white teeth.

Source: The Hindu May 25, 2016 05:33 UTC