Malayalam filmmaker Naranippuzha Shanavas no more
Kochi, Dec 24: Malayalam film director Shanavas Naranippuzha, who suffered a heart attack a few days ago, died at a private hospital here, film industry sources said here on Thursday.
Shanavas(37), hailing from Naranipuzha near Ponnani in Malappuram district, was admitted to a hospital in Coimbatore in a serious condition after he suffered a heart attack.
But he suffered another attack while being shifted to the private hospital here last night for better medical care, hospital sources said.
He was brought to the hospital at 9 pm in a serious condition.
His end came after 10 pm. He had suffered brain damage too.
Efforts to revive him did not yield result, they said.
Shanavas's movie "Sufiyum Sujatayum" was the first Malayalam film released on OTT platform during coronavirus lockdown.
Aditi Rao Hydari, who was the lead actress in the movie, recalled that he was "as kind and sensitive as his stories".
"Rest in Peace Shanavas sir. I Hope your Sufi soul finds a place as beautiful as the one you created for us in Sufiyum Sujathayum.
Gone too soon. My Prayers and condolences to the family," she wrote on her social media account.
"Karie" released in2015 was his debut movie.
Kerala cultural minister A K Balan condoled his untimely demise, saying it was a huge loss for the Malayalam film industry.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
