caption death_date death_place years_active birth_place name parents birth_date spouse image article_title birth_name occupation
portrait of actor sankaradi 09 october 2001 cherai , kochi , india 1963 -- 2001 cherai , kingdom of cochin sankaradi paravoor memana parameswara pillai , thoppil parambil janaki amma 1924 sharada sankaradi.jpg sankaradi
 chandrasekhara menon actor , politician , journalist
sankaradi

chandrasekhara menon , better known by his stage name sankaradi -lrb- ; 1924 -- 2001 -rrb- , was an indian actor .
he was a veteran malayalam comedian and character artiste , who had over 700 malayalam films to his credit .
he was one of the first realistic actors in south indian cinema .
he dominated the malayalam film scene in the 1960s , 1970s , and 1980s as comedian along with adoor bhasi and bahadur .
later , he switched to character roles .
