P K Rosy Award for
Kaviyoor Ponnamma
Religious and casteist
concerns should not pollute society, Kaviyoor Ponnamma has said. She was
speaking after accepting this year’s P K Rosy Award instituted by the Kerala
Sthree Padana Kendram. Faith and rituals are parts of personal life and should
not create conflict in the society, she added. The award was handed over to her
by senior theatre artist Vijayakumari O Madhavan on the last day of the Female
Film Festival being held in the city. The veteran actor said that she is proud
to accept the P K Rosy Puraskaram, an award in the name of Malayalam cinema’s
first ‘heroine’ and a woman who braved the wrath of society.
Vijayakumari O Madhavan said that she had to face a lot of
opposition from society when she had started her career in theatre. “There was
a notion that women who acted in plays and films will earn bad reputation. I
did not pay heed to it and went about acting in more than 10,000 plays of which
I am really proud, she added. Kerala Sthree Padana Kendram chairperson T V
Seema presided over the function held at the IMA Hall. Indian Medical
Association Thiruvananthapuram district president Dr R Sreekumar, Kerala Sthree
Padana Kendram director P S Sreekala, secretary S Priya and treasurer V S Bindu
also spoke at the occasion.
Prof. John Kurakar
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