He just says his lines and erupts into song every few minutes. The comedy would often come from the seriousness with which he delivers his dialogue. Sound Engineer Das sir made sure that there was no external noise,” Prem Kumar says. “It was all recorded on the spot, there was no dubbing. “This is for 10 marks, this for 20,” he tells his bewildered mother. But Lambo does take that year’s exams seriously, laboriously pasting answers of possible questions all over his upper body. Their paths are parallel, they can never meet.

Achan does not understand him, Lambo says. Who will bring rice to the table, his dad asks his wife who seems disinterested. Lambodaran – who liked to be called Lambo – has failed his Class 10 exams several years in a row and this has upset his dad (Narayanan), a policeman who is due to retire in two years. Mavelikkara Ponnamma and Narayanan as Lambo's parents Lalitha was a domestic worker who used to help his mother (Mavelikkara Ponnamma), and the latter seemed to believe everything her weirdo son told her. The wife (Lathika) looks shyly from behind the curtains when Lambo tells the interviewer of their old love, a time when they used to stand on either side of a window. Lambodaran is, when the film begins, an established old poet, attending an interview by Shashankan (Ravi Vallathol). But you can still see why Lambo worked, why it charmed a generation of television viewers. Three decades can change your perception about a lot of things, comedy included. If you watch Lambo now, you may not laugh like you once did or for the same reasons. For a long time, people continued to call him Lambo, the role they just couldn’t forget.

Dd malayalam old serial kuttichathan