I am afraid to live in a land of killers

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:  Amidst the deafening silence of the  cultural icons on the murder of T P Chandrasekharan, actor Mohanlal has come out against the gruesome incident.   In a touching piece on his blog www.thecompleteactor.com, Lal calls it ‘’an act by a gang who cannot be called human’’ and says ‘’he is afraid to live in a land of killers.’’   In a signed, handwritten piece in Malayalam titled ‘Ormayil randu Ammamar’ (In memory of two two mothers) posted on his 52nd birthday, Mohanlal says, ‘’May 21 is my birthday. I have passed 52 milestones in life. Definitely it is a matter to rejoice. But dark rain clouds of sorrow loom over this birthday. The thoughts of two mothers choke between the shades of that clouds.  On the one hand, my mother who has been unconscious for the past three months following a brain attack. On the other, the mother of T P Chandrasekharan, who died receiving more than 50 injuries on his face.’’ Mohanlal’s mother Shanthakumari is presently undergoing treatment at Amrita Hospital. “I did not know him personally. Had he been alive, he would have been nearly my age. His mother must be the same age as mine. On several occasions I have felt my mother’s heart skip a beat on learning about my sorrows. Hence, I can fathom the sea of sorrow of a mother whose son was hacked to death. The joys of my birthday are getting drowned in the sea of that tears,’’ he says.   The actor, who incidentally plays a character Chandrasekharan in his latest hit ‘Grandmaster’, says, ‘’I am not commenting on the politics in this (murder). I am unaware of that. But I must say one thing. I am fed up living in a land of killers and those who order to kill. I am afraid to live here. Is Kerala becoming a lunatic asylum?’’   The three-page note ends by quoting two lines from a hit song from his own movie, Madambi, ‘’Amma Mazhakkarinu Kan niranju... aa kanneril njan nananju..’’