K. P. Sasi

K. P. Sasi
Died25 December 2022(2022-12-25) (aged 64)
Thrissur, Kerala, India
OccupationsFilm director and cartoonist

Karuvannur Puthanveettil Sasi[1] (Malayalam: കെ. പി. ശശി; 14 March 1958 – 25 December 2022) was an Indian film director and cartoonist from Bengaluru.

Life and career

Sasi started working as a cartoonist while being a student at JNU during the late seventies. He started experimenting with films on 8mm during the early eighties. His documentaries include A Valley Refuses to Die, We Who Make History, Living in Fear, In the Name of Medicine, Voices from a Disaster, Fabricated!, America America, Resisting Coastal Invasion and Development at Gunpoint.[2][3]

His feature films include Ilayum Mullum, on the social and psychological violence on women in Kerala.[4] Ek Alag Mausam (A Different Season) (Hindi: एक अलग मौसम) is a 2003 Hindi language movie directed by Sasi and starring Nandita Das, Anupam Kher, Renuka Shahane, Rajit Kapur, Arundathi Nag, Sreelatha and Sally Whittaker. Ssh..Silence Please[5] is a silent comedy film on development.

Sasi died in Thrissur, Kerala, on 25 December 2022, at the age of 64.[6][7]

As part of the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy’s Smrithianjali series, the book The Third Eye of Human Rights, edited by Mustafa Desamangalam, presents the life story of Sasi.[8][9]

Filmography

As director

References

  1. ↑ Praveen, S. r. (10 December 2012). "His camera speaks truth to power". The Hindu.
  2. ↑ "Director KP Sasi passes away". Retrieved 25 December 2022.
  3. ↑ "Film, documentary maker KP Sasi passes away". Retrieved 25 December 2022.
  4. ↑ K. P. Sasi (2006). "Ilayum Mullum — Suicides in 'God`s Own Country'". Labour File. Labour File. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
  5. ↑ "The Hindu : When silence is golden". www.thehindu.com. Retrieved 2 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  6. ↑ Director KP Sasi passes away
  7. ↑ "Veteran filmmaker KP Sasi dies at 64(1994)". Archived from the original on 27 December 2022. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
  8. ↑ Desamangalam, Mustafa (2023). Mustafa Desamangalam (ed.). മനുഷ്യവകാശങ്ങളുടെ മൂന്നാംകണ്ണ്: കെ പി ശശിയുടെ ചലച്ചിത്രജീവിതം. Trivandrum: Kerala State Chalachithra Akademy.
  9. ↑ "മണ്മറഞ്ഞ പ്രതിഭകൾക്ക് മേളയുടെ ആദരം". Malayala Manorama. 11 December 2023. Retrieved 1 October 2025.