‘Crazy’ Mohan, prominent theatre artiste in Tamil theatre, and ace scriptwriter for Tamil films, suffered an acute heart attack in Chennai, and was declared dead at 2 p.m., after efforts to resuscitate him at Kauvery Hospital, failed. Born in 1952, as Mohan Rangachari, ‘Crazy’ was an epithet that he acquired after his popular play ‘Crazy Thieves in Palavakkam’ (which subsequently was run on television as a series too) became a runaway hit. Mohan qualified as a mechanical engineer at the College of Engineering, Guindy, in the 1970s. But his calling was elsewhere and he started his own drama troupe Crazy Creations in 1979. Several plays followed, as also movie scripts and his association with Kamal Hassan led to some hilarious comic sequences in Tamil films.

Source: The Hindu June 10, 2019 08:42 UTC