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More than 40 years since its release, veteran Malayalam director KG George’s 1980 film Mela has proved to be a milestone in many ways. Adapted to the screen from a book of the same name, written by circus artist and writer Sreedharan Champad, Mela tells the story of a 27-year-old dwarf person, who struggles with jealousy and insecurities after his marriage to a woman almost double his height. In his book ‘An Album of Indian Big Tops (History of Indian Circus)’, Sreedharan refers to Mela as the first film in the world to be made with a dwarf person as the hero: Puthenveli Sasidharan. Sasidharan eventually came to be known as Mela Raghu — a beloved screen name he received thanks to his stint as the protagonist in the critically acclaimed film.

That said, there is another reason to hand Mela the status of a ‘landmark movie’. The film was also the first big break in the industry for Raghu’s co-actor Muhammad Kutty or megastar Mammootty, as he would later come to be known. In an ironic twist of fate, however, even as his co-star of 5-ft 10-inches went on to rise through the

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