Malayans love films starring elephants. We have now at all times welcomed tales through which an elephant took middle stage. So many films the place an elephant performed the hero or stood head and shoulders with the hero have at all times been cash makers on the field workplace. One such movie that got here out as a winner was ‘Ajagajantharam’, starring Antony Varghese. The primary character of the movie was an elephant named Nadakkal Unnikrishnan. The title of the elephant on display was Neisheri Parthan. Nonetheless, the elephant, which was expensive to everybody, lately died.
‘Ajagajantharam’ director Tinu Pappachan shared a put up on social media with the caption: “Farewell Nadakkal Unnikrishnan whereas Antony Varghese wrote: “Adieu Unnikrishnan.
Neisheri Parthan had a key position within the movie and lots of motion stunts featured him. The movie opens with an elephant and his mahout coming into a neighborhood pageant together with a gaggle of youths and utter chaos that breaks out over the following 24 hours.
Unnikrishnan is a favourite amongst film folks as a consequence of his pleasant nature. Together with that, the truth that he was one of many few elephants to have accomplished the precise possession registration required for efficiency animals as directed by the Animal Welfare Board made Unnikrishnan an in depth pal within the media world. visuals.
In keeping with the preliminary report, he died as a consequence of meals poisoning whereas filming a film in Coimbatore.
He has additionally appeared in ‘Odiyan’, ‘Panchavarnthatha’, ‘Thiruvambadi Thamban’, ‘Kumki’, ‘Hathi Mera Sathi’ and ‘Palthu Janwar’. The proprietor of it hails from Mundakayam in Kottayam. It was Palakkad Manihsheeri Hari who introduced Unnikrishnan from Karnataka to Kerala. As soon as he was transferred to Kollam, Nadakkal Varkey, a resident of Mundakkal, purchased him. Unnikrishnan, who had all the most effective qualities of an elephant, was calm and pleasant.