Mumbai | After the poet Changampuzha Krishnapillai, the contributions of literary 'star' M. T. Vasudevan Nair, who was enveloped in the love of Malayalee public consciousness, was appreciated by the commemoration ceremony held by IPTA Kerala unit, Mumbai. The six-hour-long discussion was held on the December 28 WhatsApp groups, which started at 4 pm and ended at 10 pm, to accommodate more people.
IPTA's commemoration made it clear that there was no other literary personality in our time who was worshiped so deeply by the Malayalees and that the community of admirers was not specialists in literature. The meeting held that a man; who is not much active in public life, does not constantly respond to current events, and is miser even in laughter; that drew a nation close to itself through his magic of writing and cinema alone was made possible by showing the common man of our time, his innermost self, to the society through a big mirror.
In "M T Timeless" programme, poetry, language pledge, poetry recital, memoirs, criticism, reviews, songs, song composing, reading and re-reading of M. T.’s works, picture drawing and speech reading etc, are part of the commemoration. What "M T Timeless" witnessed through song, story reading and visual presentation of the song; is an attempt to record the love and adoration to a great man who marked our time and our land. G. Viswanathan delivered the introductory lecture in the plenary session while ten-year-old Mohammad Amla recited the language pledge written by M. T. while eleven-year-old Anay Satikumar drew the portrait of M. T.
Arjun Keshavan, Janya Praveen Nair, Abhinav Harindranath, Jubin Godfrey and Sriram Iyer paid tribute to M T by singing songs from M T films.
Saritha Ajith, Gauri Ajith and Gautami Ajith have done visualization for the song in MT's first screenplay, Murapennu. C P Krishnakumar, Sunitha Ezhumavil, M K Nidhish, P S Sumesh, Suresh Verma, Rugmini Sagar, Lalitha Sankaran, Surendra Babu, Rathi Menon, Savitha Kurup, Suma Ramachandran, Unni Menon, Anil Prakash, K V S Nelluvai, M P R Panicker, Sarita Ajith, Sholi Satikumar, Renu Manilal, Diana Jayaprakash, Premlal Raman and Dimple Girish read and reviewed M T's stories and remembered M T and his varied contributions. Dimple Girish expressed gratitude for the commemoration ceremony led by Shabu Bhargavan, Ajith Sankaran, Srikanth Iyer, Babu N K, V Subramanian, Biju Komath and P Satikumar.
