Dravidian parties made Kerala Actor Padma Award winners - Why Mammootty is still with Padma Shri ?

It was the two Dravidian politucak parties that gave Kerala's filmdom's big names the Padma Awards says a report with details. Mammootty's Left winger status has left him holding a Padma Shri since 1998. Read on to know that if it was not for Karunanidhi or Jayalalithaa and in another words a Sukumari or Cochin Haneefa that made Mallu actors and Gana Gardhavan tenure in Madrasi fruitful. According to a report, Mammootty and Mohanlal got their Padma Shri and Yesudas his Vibhushan after Tamil Nadu State Government recommended them. K S Chitra ( 2021)and Mohanlal (2009) received the Padma Bhushan awards after the practice of State Government recommending the names was stopped. It was Narendra Modi ministry that gave Chitra her Padma Bhushan and the first Manmohan Singh ministry with A K Antony and Vayalar Ravi from Kerala that got Lalettan his second honor and also was made Honorary Lt Col of Territorial Army. His name figured in Ram Ayodhya temple invitee list and he did not accept it and hence got dropped while drawing up Vibhushan list is what many feel. In 1998 Mammootty received the Padma Shri and in 2001 the same honour was bestowed on Mohanlal and much earlier in 1975 singer Yesudas got Padma Shri award and he got his Padma Vibhushan in 2017. All this was due to Tamil Nadu State Government. Kerala's Nayanar ministry in 1998 did not name Mammootty n their list. The Padma Vibhushan award is third highest civilian awards and Padama Vibhushan the second highest. The report surfaced after the names of Chiranjeevi for Padma Vibhushan and Mithun Chakraborty for Padma Bhushan was declared by Union Government. Kerala Opposition leader Satheesan attacked Union Government for not including Mammooty in the Padma list. Mammooty stayed with Padma Shri all this while while Mohanlal moved forward with Padma Bhushan. Mammootty is a left sympathizer and heads CPM TV Channel Kairali. Whenever Left has come to power in State, Congress ruled the Central Government . Yet another disclosure is that Malayali actors Sukumari (2003), Shobana( 2006) and Jayram in 2011 and singer Chithra in 2005 got the Padma Shri awards thanks to Tamil Nadu Government including them in their list. It was during the Governor’s rule in Tamil Nadu that Mammootty name got recommended and it means during a de-facto Congress Central Ministry. Ironically in Kerala it was a Left ministry led by E K Nayanar If Nayanar ministry had put up his name then Mammootty would have got dropped Yesudas was recommended by Karunanidhi ministry. Karunanidhi too was instrumental in Mohanlal getting his first Padma Award. Jayalalithaa put Sukumari, Chitra and Shobana in Padma Award lists. At that time it was widely known that Sukumari like Manorama had a close friendship with AMMA. It was Karunanidhi that put Jayram in Padma list and Cochin Haneefa was part of DMK’s Murosoli Movies. Yesudas name was included by Jayalalaithaa for Padma Bhushan in 2002 and Vibhushan in 2017 by then CM EPS who is today’s Opposition Leader.