See you again Sreevidya

By John Cheeran
The best thing about life is that it ends at some point unlike our 24x7 news channels.
Sreevidya, the celebrated Indian movie actress, died in Thiruvananthapurm on Thursday. She was 53.
Doctors said Sreevidya, a by word for beauty in God's Own Country, was battling cancer for more than two years.
But I fear much more than cancer, it was loneliness that contributed to her full stop.
After a refulgent career in movies she had turned to her first love, classical music, to combat loneliness and cancer. She became a devotee and when death came she must have been fully rehearsed for the final take.
Sreevidya was not a natural Malayali. (Her parents were Tamilians) And that alone tells us why she did not end up as a hypocrite when it came to tackling life head on.
Sreevidya's screen roles often were of sacrifice and selfless love. A weeping wife, a heart-broken beloved and a helpless sister.
Unreal ones, one must say. Where do we find such characters in life ?
But all of us loved her for just being that woman who we could not find next door, and the door next to that...
Sreevidya was bold and foolish at the same time.
She married her love, George Thomas, at a time when it was not easy for a Brahmin lady to marry outside her caste and religion. And she suffered.
She was bitter and had reasons to be so. But it was Sreevidya's greatness that she did not show traces of her sorrow to people like us.
Sreevidya was a soulful actress. She leaves behind her hundredes of roles.
The most precious thing among them was her life it self.
Thank you, and see you...