Mahe Malayala Kalagramam founder and managing trustee A.P. Kunhikannan, 96, passed away in Chennai on Sunday.
He had been undergoing treatment for pneumonia at a private hospital in Chennai for about a week.
The body will be kept for public to pay homage at his house at Kodambakkam till 11 a.m. on Monday, and will be brought to Thalassery by road for the funeral rites.