Thilakan has been put on ventilator following multiple-organ failure
Thiruvananthapuram:
While Kerala celebrates its harvest festival Onam, veteran actor Thilakan battles for life.
Thilakan has been put on ventilator for the past few days, following multiple organ failure. Thilakan was admitted to the KIMS Hospital late last week. The entire whos's who of the Malayalam film and political world here has called on the 74-year-old award-winning actor.
A medical bulletin issued by the private hospital where Thilakan is under treatment said on Tuesday that the actor's condition remains critical after his kidneys were affected and his blood pressure dropped the previous day.
Speaking to IANS, Congress politician-turned-actor Raj Mohan Unnithan said, "The doctors told me that the situation continues to remain critical. All we can do is pray. I am sure all film lovers in Kerala would be doing that."
Thilakan, who has been acting for over three decades, has essayed roles in nearly 300 films. Beginning his career in the 1950s through the theatre movement, Thilakan performed in a film for the first time in the 1979 film Ulkadal.
Thilakan's latest film, Ustad Hotel, (the second film of superstar Mammootty's son Dulqar Salman) is currently running in theatres. The actor was in the news for taking on the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes when he was reportedly barred from a role in the film Dam 999.
Thilakan has been put on ventilator for the past few days, following multiple organ failure. Thilakan was admitted to the KIMS Hospital late last week. The entire whos's who of the Malayalam film and political world here has called on the 74-year-old award-winning actor.
A medical bulletin issued by the private hospital where Thilakan is under treatment said on Tuesday that the actor's condition remains critical after his kidneys were affected and his blood pressure dropped the previous day.
Speaking to IANS, Congress politician-turned-actor Raj Mohan Unnithan said, "The doctors told me that the situation continues to remain critical. All we can do is pray. I am sure all film lovers in Kerala would be doing that."
Thilakan, who has been acting for over three decades, has essayed roles in nearly 300 films. Beginning his career in the 1950s through the theatre movement, Thilakan performed in a film for the first time in the 1979 film Ulkadal.
Thilakan's latest film, Ustad Hotel, (the second film of superstar Mammootty's son Dulqar Salman) is currently running in theatres. The actor was in the news for taking on the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes when he was reportedly barred from a role in the film Dam 999.
