Sreekutty is familiar to Malayalees through miniscreen. The news that he eloped with a thirty-year-old man at the age of 18 was also a big discussion. Now here is Sreekutty explaining that old time. But it was during the pilot shoot of a serial. That was the time when I finished the Guruvayoorappan serial. When he arrived on the set, the cameraman was very serious. Even if you say good morning, you won’t say anything back. A musetta that doesn’t look in the face or smile. Always angry, fussing about anything. There was a shoot for about a week. Unfortunately that serial didn’t happen that day. Later he was acting in the serial Akare Akare. It was another cameraman. The cameraman changed when the shoot was going well. When she heard that Manoj Kumar was coming, Beena Chechi (Beena Antony) said, ‘He and I will not settle’. That day we were talking about this cameraman.
After that autograph serial started. He was the first cameraman there too and came later. I told others that he is very bad, he will fight about anything, he won’t even laugh. They also accepted Etan in that image. But Ettal treated everyone exactly the opposite of what I told them. Even though he gets angry, he laughs and talks to everyone. I was shocked. The shoot went on like that, nothing short of anger. That’s when the director of Seerail said, ‘Srikutty, we can’t leave like this, give us a job’. So gossip started spreading within the sets that Sreekutty had something in common with Manoj. If it started as a joke, we got serious at a later stage. Don’t know how it happened. I don’t even know how to describe it, it just happened. We have been married for 12 years. Going very happily. No problem with family now.
