Born as Mohan Rangachari, ‘Crazy’ was a nom de plume that he acquired after his popular play ‘Crazy Thieves in Palavakkam’.
‘Crazy’ Mohan, prominent theater artiste in Tamil theater, and ace script writer for Tamil films, suffered an acute heart attack in Chennai, and was declared dead at 2 p.m., after efforts to resuscitate him at Kauvery Hospital, failed. He was 67.
Born in 1952, as Mohan Rangachari, ‘Crazy’ was a nom de plume that he acquired after his popular play ‘Crazy Thieves in Palavakkam’ (which subsequently was run on television as a series too) became a runaway hit. It set the tone for the rest of his career, as Crazy Mohan and his brother Balaji wrote and starred in a number of plays of similar tone and tenor, and always had their audience in splits.
Mohan qualified as a mechanical engineer at the College of Engineering, Guindy, in the 1970s. But his calling was elsewhere and he started his own drama troupe Crazy Creations in 1979. Several plays followed, as also movie scripts and his association with Kamal Hassan lead to some hilarious comic sequences in Tamil films.
