Kolilakkam

Kolilakkam (English: Shockwave) is a 1981 Malayalam film directed by P.N.Sundaram, and starring Jayan.

This was Jayan's last film before his death. His death happened during the shooting of this movie in which he was supposed to board a moving helicopter from a bike. The helicopter carrying him hit the ground while he was still hanging on the foot board. Jayan succumbed to the injuries sustained later in the hospital. The film was an uncredited remake of the 1965 Yash Chopra Hindi movie, Waqt.

Cast

Summary

Kolilakkam followed the "lost and found" formula. Three brothers are separated in their childhood and how they reunite forms the story. Jayan, Sukumaran and M.G. Soman played the brothers, while Madhu and K. R. Vijaya, played their parents.

Incident

On 16 November 1980, Jayan was killed in an accident on the set of Kolilakkam. The climax scene of the movie was being filmed in Sholavaram, near Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Jayan always performed his own stunts, and for this movie he was performing a particularly dangerous stunt that involved him boarding an airborne helicopter from a moving motorbike. The shot was accepted by the director in the first take; altogether three shots were filmed.