Versatile actor K.P.A.C. Lalitha, 74, died at Thripunithura, near here, on Tuesday. Once an inevitable part of Malayalam films, both commercial and art school, she has been ailing for some time.
A winner of two national awards for the best supporting role and four State awards, she held the post of Chairperson of the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi before she took seriously ill and disappeared from the public scene.
Born at Ramapuram in Alappuzha, Lalitha learned dance and became a singer-actor at the Kerala People’s Arts Club (KPAC), which staged several landmark plays that also catalysed the Communist movement in Kerala.
