Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer is a writer and actor in Malayalam cinema, credited on Kadhaveedu (2013).

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (21 January 1908 – 5 July 1994), popularly referred to as the Beypore Sultan, was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature, a humanist and a freedom fighter in the Indian national movement. He was a novelist and a short story writer known for his path-breaking, down-to-earth style of writing that made him equally popular among the literary critics as well as the public.

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