Filmmaker Sachy passes away

Thrissur: Script writer and director K R Sachidanandan passed away at Jubilee Mission Medical College Hospital here on Thursday night. He was 48.
Sachidanandan, popularly known as Sachy, was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday after he suffered a heart attack. He had since been on ventilator support.
He had been recuperating after a total hip replacement surgery when he suffered the heart attack. A CT scan at Jubilee had earlier suggested hypoxic brain damage.
Sachy’s latest film, Ayyappanum Koshiyum, starring Prithviraj and Biju Menon, was a hit just before the Covid-forced lockdown.
Sachy started his career as a script writer with Sethunath (Sachi-Sethu). The Sachi-Sethu combo’s first film, Chocolate, starring Prithviraj, Jayasurya, Remya Nambeesan was a super hit. The duo worked on other films Robinhood, Make-up Man and Seniors.
But after the flop of Doubles they stopped the collaboration. Sachy’s directorial debut, Anarkkali, was released in 2015.
Born in Kodungallur, Sachy took his degree in Commerce from SNM College Maliankara before joining the Govt Law College, Ernakulam. Before making his foray into films, he had practised as a criminal lawyer in the high court for eight years.