Chennai: Actor and director Prathap Pothen passed away. He was 70 years old. He was found dead in a flat in Chennai. No further information is available. Prathap Pothan was an actor, director, writer, and producer who acted in many Malayalam films as well.
Pratap Pothan was born in 1952 in an industrialist family in Thiruvananthapuram.
He acted in 95 films in Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Hindi languages. Prathap Pothan has directed around thirty films including Malayalam films Ritubhedam, Daisy and Oru Yathramozhi, Chaitanya in Telugu and Jeeva, Vetrivizha, and Luckyman in Tamil.
