
While on his way to the Mookambika temple one day, Thampi happened to watch a Kannada movie titled

“So I decided not to work with him in the future.” Itha Ivide Vare became a hit, its success went to his head and that caused problems on the sets of another film I was producing at the time,” he said. “Soman was supposed to do that role, but when G a anam, a musician from a lower caste who falls in love with a Brahmin woman, wasn not Ambareesh. “But it got delayed because of several reasons.” G a anam for a long time and it could have been the first south Indian film based on classical music, as I had announced it long before The prolific Sreekumaran Thampi believes it is his finest film till date. Gaanam also won that year’s State award for the best film with popular appeal and aesthetic value.

It was released in 1982 and though the film did not do well commercially, it had received critical acclaim. G a anam, was directed by Sreekumaran Thampi. Ambareesh, the popular Kannada actor who died in Bengaluru at the age of 66, may have appeared only in a few Malayalam films, but in one of them, he got a stellar role and he delivered.
