K. P. Sasi

Karuvannur Puthanveettil Sasi (Malayalam: കെ. പി. ശശി; 14 March 1958 – 25 December 2022) was an Indian film director and cartoonist from Bengaluru.

Life and career

Sasi's father K. Damodaran (25 February 1912 – 3 July 1976) was a Marxist theoretician and writer and one of the founder leaders of the Communist Party of India.

Sasi started working as a cartoonist while being a student at JNU during the late seventies. He started experimenting with films on 8mm during the early eighties. His documentaries include A Valley Refuses to Die, We Who Make History, Living in Fear, In the Name of Medicine, Voices from a Disaster, Fabricated!, America America, Resisting Coastal Invasion and Development at Gunpoint.

His feature films include Ilayum Mullum, on the social and psychological violence on women in Kerala. Ek Alag Mausam (A Different Season) (Hindi: एक अलग मौसम) is a 2003 Hindi language movie directed by Sasi and starring Nandita Das, Anupam Kher, Renuka Shahane, Rajit Kapur, Arundathi Nag, Sreelatha and Sally Whittaker. Ssh..Silence Please is a silent comedy film on development.

Sasi was a founder member of ViBGYOR Film Festival.

Sasi died in Thrissur, Kerala, on 25 December 2022, at the age of 64.

As part of the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy’s Smrithianjali series, the book The Third Eye of Human Rights, edited by Mustafa Desamangalam, presents the life story of Sasi.

Filmography

As director

• 2016 – Voices from the Ruins
• 2014 – Fabricated
• 2009 – A climate call from the coast
• 2009 – Like leaves in a storm
• 2009 – Tsunami rehabilitation an unfinished business
• 2009 – Gaon chodab nahin
• 2007 – Resisting Coastal Invasion
• 2006 – If It Rains Again
• 2005 – Redefining Peace – Women lead the way
• 2005 – America, America
• 2004 – The Source of Life for Sale
• 2003 – Ssh..Silence Please
• 2002 – Development at Gunpoint
• 2001 – Voices from a Disaster
• 1998 – Ek Alag Mausam
• 1994 – The Wings of Kokkrebellur
• 1993 – Appukkuttan in Time Runs
• 1991 – Ilayum Mullum
• 1988 – A Valley Refuses to Die
• 1989 – A Campaign Begins
• 1988 – The Rope
• 1987 – In the Name of Medicine
• 1986 – Living in Fear
• 1985 – We Who Make History and That Angry Arabian Sea
• 1984 – Science to People