Adoor Bhasi
| Adoor Bhasi അടൂർ ഭാസി |
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| Born |
K. Bhaskaran Nair 1 March 1927 Trivandrum, Travancore, British India |
| Died | 29 March 1990 (aged 63) |
| Other names | Bhasi |
| Years active | 1953–1990 |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) |
| Spouse(s) | Never married |
K. Bhaskaran Nair (Malayalam: കെ. ഭാസ്കരൻ നായർ; 1 March 1927 – 29 March 1990), known by his stage name Adoor Bhasi (Malayalam: അടൂർ ഭാസി), was an Indian film actor and film director from Kerala. Adoor Bhasi was almost always cast as the man who stands next to the hero. His hilarious actions and roles became the cynosure of comic scenes in the Malayalam films of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He is also famous for his eloquent speeches in fluent English. He directed three Malayalam films during the late 1970s.
Adoor Bhasi was born on 1 March 1927 in Rosscote Bungalow, Vazhuthacaud, Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the erstwhile native State of Travancore in South India. He had a rich lineage to boast of. His father, E. V. Krishna Pillai, was a renowned Malayalam humourist writer, dramatist, pioneering short story writer and essayist, a lawyer and a Member of the then Travancore Legislative Assembly (M.L.C.). His mother, Maheshwari Amma, was the youngest daughter of C.V. Raman Pillai, the greatest Malayalam novelist (the first historical novelist in Malayalam and author of Marthanda Varma, Dharmaraja, Premamritham, and Ramarajabahadur), pioneering dramatist, journalist and social activist.
Bhasi was the fourth son of his parents. His siblings (two sisters and four brothers) were the late Omana Amma, the late K. Ramachandran Nair alias Chandraji, Rajalakshmi Amma, K. Padmanabhan Nair, the late K. Sankaran Nair, who died young at the age of 18, and the late K. Krishnan Nair.
His elder brother Chandraji became a film actor much before him. Chandraji entered the Film world of Bollywood and acted in a few Hindi films (Bimal Roy's Parineeta and Hrishikesh Mukherji's films) before moving over with his family to Madras to live with Adoor Bhasi. Chandraji was the manager of RK Studios owned by Raj Kapoor in Mumbai and has acted as villain in the popular Bollywood film "Ashique" alongside Raj Kapoor. Chandraji then acted in several Malayalam films like Chithram and became well known as an actor. His nephew, B. Harikumar, is a well-known Novelist, Satirist and Actor in Malayalam and has acted in several TV Serials and Feature Films.
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