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'''Velayudhan Sambasivan''' (4 July 1929 – 23 April 1996) was a famous "[[Kadhaprasangam]]" artist of [[Kerala]], [[India]]. He was born on 4 July 1929 in [[Chavara Thekkumbhagom]] in [[Kollam]] district, as the eldest son of Meloottu Velayudhan and Sarada. He had seven siblings. After schooling in his native village he joined Sree Narayana College, Kollam for higher studies where he was associated with the [[Communist Party of India]] and its student wing [[AISF]]. His gift for singing and acting earned him the name of an artist very early in his life. He started his career as a teacher but quit the job to become a full-time artiste. With his inimitable style in story-telling, he soon became one of the most popular artists of Kerala with immense mass appeal. He presented more than 50 stories on stage including [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Othello]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-oiH6D5H4Y |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/x-oiH6D5H4Y |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Othello - V. Sambasivan - YouTube|publisher=www.youtube.com|access-date=13 June 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and  [[Dostoyevsky]]'s ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkUpdXFqHm0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/SkUpdXFqHm0 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Karamazov Sahodaranmar - V. Sambasivan Part 1|publisher=www.youtube.com|access-date=13 June 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Being a member of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] he was arrested and imprisoned in 1975, during the [[Indian Emergency]] declared by the then regime headed by [[Indira Gandhi]]. He died of [[lung cancer]] on 23 April 1996, aged 67.

V. Sambasivan was married to Subhadra. His eldest son Dr. Vasanthakumar Sambasivan, a Professor of Chemistry at Sree Narayana College, Kollam follows his father's way.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/marie-curies-story-in-kathaprasangam/article2789134.ece|title=Marie Curie's story in Kathaprasangam|work=The Hindu|date=10 January 2012|access-date=14 Aug 2013|last1=Pereira|first1=Ignatius}}</ref> Other than Vasanthakumar, he has three more sons named Prasanth, Jinaraj and Jesus, and a daughter named Aishwarya. Mrs. Subhadra Sambasivan died on 20 February 2021 aged 80.