Nagesh: RIP

Nagesh

Nagesh -  With a career spanning close to half a century, this veteran actor is a book of lessons for a common man in the street to a business tycoon who is chasing his dreams . Its common that the negative aspects of a human will wipe him off from the good books of the society.Nagesh and Raju (Satyam) belong to this elite group. To start with he seldom had any sort of courtesy for his producers. He literally would walk out of the sets or complain of a sour throat (for the dubbing of the movie)  in case his salary is yet to be credited. So what happened to all the money he earned? One fine day, when he drove down to see his mother in his new imported car stacked with money, all he had to see his mother’s last rites being performed on the banks of Amravathi. Resultant was he became a slave to alcoholism and drugs. There are aplenty here, which i had to edit for the sole reason that the length of this post may overshoot. On the positive note, to put in simple words.. Kamal hassan has just two portraits hanging in his office, One is his own and the other one is Mr.Nagesh. This says it. During the funeral, Kamal had to say these words

“The greatness of the man is that even as we are mourning his passing away and crying, you are reminded of some ‘Nagesh joke,’ which will make you laugh instantly,”

அது தான் நாகேஷ்! (his quote from KB’s thillu mullu)