Mamukkoya, one of Malayalam cinema’s finest and most popular comedians of all time, died of cardiac arrest at a private hospital in Kozhikode on Wednesday. He was 76.
On Monday, he had collapsed during a football tournament at Kalikavu in Malappuram district. Trauma care volunteers had offered him first aid, and rushed him to a hospital at Wandoor. He was later shifted to the private hospital in Kozhikode where he breathed his last.