Veteran actor Rajan P. Dev dead!

Actor Rajan P. Dev (58) died at a private hospital on Wednesday. The funeral will take place on Thursday morning at Angamaly, near Kochi.

He was admitted at Lakeshore hospital after vomiting blood. He was under treatment for liver disease for a long time. His wife is Santha and the couple have 2 children,their daughter Ashamma and son Jibile Raj.

His body will be kept for public to pay respects at Ernakulam town hall. The funeral ceremony is planned to be held at St.Xavier’s church in Karukutti on Thursday at 11am.His last film released was Ee Patanathil Bhootham starring the megastar of malayalam Mammootty.In this film,he played the villain’s role.His career spans close to three decades and in it he acted in about 180 films as villain, character artist and comedian.

Rajan started his career as a theatre artist and ran his own drama troupe. His claim to fame was playing Kochu Vava in the stage play Kattu Kuthira, which got him the film offers.He shined mainly as a villain with his own style of dialogue delivery and punchlines. Rajan did over 50 films in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. His last Tamil release was the conventional bad man in Malayan released last week. He caricatured the typical corrupt cop in over 35 films and was a favourite with the audiences.