Poet in a new role [India]:
IT TAKES immense courage for a poet to shed all pretensions and express the desire to be forgotten as a poet. But then, this realisation is what separates Balachandran Chullikad from other poets of his generation.
"The complete collection of my poems, brought out in 2000, has only 79 poems. I could not write 100 poems in my 35-year career. This means I am not a prolific writer. I write only when I am inspired. In the absence of intense poetic inspiration, I stopped writing poetry." [...]
And went into the movies:
22. BEST NARRATION /VOICE OVER
Rajat Kamal and a cash prize of Rs. 10,000/- to the
Narrator: BALACHANDRAN CHULLIKAD
Citation
The best Narration/Voice Over award for 2003 is given to Balachandran Chullikad for the Malayalam film The Eighteenth Elephant — Three Monologues for lending feel and depth to the agonies of elephants through his voice.
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