{"id":481079,"date":"2026-06-07T17:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/481079\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:25:14","slug":"malayalam-actor-salim-kumar-leaves-behind-a-treasure-trove-of-comic-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/481079\/","title":{"rendered":"Malayalam actor Salim Kumar leaves behind a treasure trove of comic classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He wasn\u2019t just the prince of laughter to me \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/SalimKumar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#SalimKumar<\/a> was a deeply connected soul, fearless in his political beliefs and proud to say he stood with Congress. A versatile genius who could make us laugh and cry with the same face. Malayalam cinema lost a legend, and I lost a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H0tx6RulC6\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/H0tx6RulC6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 V D Satheesan (@vdsatheesan) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vdsatheesan\/status\/2063342553936875611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published 07 June 2026, 12:51 IST<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He wasn\u2019t just the prince of laughter to me \u2014 #SalimKumar was a deeply connected soul, fearless in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[222963,222951,222975,64936,222950,222961,458,222960,222966,222969,222955,222973,222964,222974,146,89415,222972,222967,85,17499,46,56261,59589,222953,197794,222962,24065,160,222968,152349,116102,222958,222965,222954,222970,222952,222956,58481,222971,222948,222949,222957,222959,64930],"class_list":["post-481079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-2018-kerala-floods","tag-achanuragantha-veedu","tag-actor-legacy","tag-actor-obituary","tag-adaminte-makan-abu","tag-aromal","tag-celebrities","tag-chandu-kumar","tag-chess-movie","tag-cinema-tributes","tag-comedy-actor","tag-comedy-legend","tag-compartment-movie","tag-dramatic-roles","tag-entertainment","tag-film-director","tag-film-industry-loss","tag-iconic-dialogues","tag-il","tag-indian-cinema","tag-israel","tag-kerala-film-industry","tag-kerala-news","tag-kerala-state-film-awards","tag-kochi","tag-laughing-villa","tag-malayalam-actor","tag-malayalam-cinema","tag-malayalam-entertainment-news","tag-malayalam-films","tag-malayalam-movie-news","tag-malayalam-movie-star","tag-meesha-madhavan","tag-mimicry-artist","tag-narendra-modi-condolence","tag-national-award-winner","tag-north-paravur","tag-public-service","tag-rahul-gandhi-tribute","tag-salim-kumar","tag-salim-kumar-death","tag-state-honours","tag-sunitha","tag-veteran-actor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}