Actor expresses disappointment over father's neglected statue

ACTOR Shailaja Sreedharan, daughter of the late Malayalam actor Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair, has voiced her disappointment over the neglect of her father's statue, which remains covered in plastic and lies idle in the town.

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Speaking at the Kottarakkara Film Society's short film festival, where she was a guest, Shailaja said, "It is sad that your father is being disrespected in his own hometown. We never wanted to build a statue — my father himself had said that erecting your own statue for crows to peck at is disrespectful. But we were happy when t