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Kaviyoor Ponnamma passed away after battling cancer in Kochi on Friday, September 20. The veteran actress was 79 years old at the time of her passing. The news of her untimely demise sent shockwaves in the entire film industry with many actors expressing their grief. Recently, Kamal Haasan paid a touching tribute to Kaviyoor Ponnamma for her contribution to Malayalam cinema.
Kamal Haasan took to his X handle and wrote in Tamil which loosely translated to, “Kaviyoor Ponnamma, the best character actor of the Malayalam screen, is nicknamed ‘Mother of all Actors’. Because of her acting talent, we brought her to the Tamil screen as well (Sathya). Making her debut as a stage play heroine at the age of 13, her artistic journey continued into cinema, serials and commercials. The news of ‘mother’ Kaviyur Ponnamma’s natural death is saddened. My condolences to her family. Tribute to Anna.”
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The news of Kaviyoor Ponnamma’s demise has left everyone in shock. Following her death, several actors, along with politicians and common people, gathered at the Municipal Town Hall in Kalamassery to pay their last respects to the veteran actress.
Actors Mohanlal and Mammootty also arrived to offer their condolences to Kaviyoor Ponnamma’s family and pay their last respects. The two stars spent hours near her mortal remains as they got emotional after the passing of their ‘mother’ from Malayalam cinema.
Both Mohanlal and Mammootty penned a heartfelt note on their Facebook account as they remembered Kaviyoor Ponnamma.
Mohanlal wrote, “These words are written in the pain of the death of the mother. My beloved Ponnammachechi who has always showered love on the character and the person I am like a grandmother. We were mother and son to our beloved audience in Malayalam.”
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On the other hand, Mammootty wrote, “Tributes to dear Ponnamma Chechi..”
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For the unversed, Kaviyoor Ponnamma has acted in more than 700 Malayalam movies. She has been working since the 1950s in the Indian film industry and has shared screen spaces with several renowned actors including Mohanlal, Kamal Haasan and others. She was known for her social activities and philanthropic efforts.
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Janet Jackson has recently made remarks about Vice President Kamala Harris’s race that have proven false. Speaking with The Guardian, Jackson who is now 58 years old, insinuated that Harris only has Indian lineage, hence, she would not become the first Black woman to become President if she gets elected.
All these opinions are within the boundaries of conspiracy theories that some time ago were promoted by the representatives of the right-wing politicians including Donald Trump.
In the interview, one of the issues brought up to the Grammy-winning singer was Harris’s chances of making history by becoming America’s first female Black president. While discussing Harris’ ethnicity, Jackson quickly remarked, as she told the British news outlet, “She’s not Black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian.”
This seemed to irk the interviewer, Nosheen Iqbal, but Jackson maintained that Harris’s paternal ancestry is ‘White’ even though it is incorrect. She even confessed that she did not follow recent news. She maintained, “I was told that they discovered her father was White.” When asked, Janet Jackson did not seem sure whether the country was ready to have a woman of color at the helm of the state. She stated that whoever wins the elections, either way, is going to be “mayhem.”
As opposed to what Jackson argues, Kamala Harris’s background and ethnicity have never been a matter of ambiguity. Harris’s father, Donald J. Harris, is originally from Jamaica but moved to the U.S. for his education at the University of California- Berkeley in Economics. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan also went to Berkeley from India and married Donald there. Harris has never claimed otherwise and those who have tried to present her otherwise have failed, as to be both South Asian and Black.
Donald Trump, 78, spread misinformation regarding Harris’ race by making false speculations at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention held in Chicago. He said, “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting the Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black, until several years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”
Harris went to Howard University, one of the most popular historically black colleges in the U.S. This is where she came to appreciate her biological heritage as a Black woman. Likewise in her memoir The Truths We Hold (2019), she elaborated on her growing up as a Black woman reflecting on her mother about the challenges associated with raising two Black daughters in America. The White House biography of Harris also mentions that she was the first female Vice President of America, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American to hold that position.
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