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Thavakalai alias Chittibabu; A native of Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, Thavakalai made his entry into acting with actor-director K Bhagyaraj-helmed super hit movie 'Mundhanai Mudichi'. Since the name of his character in the film was 'Thavakalai', people started calling him so and he too accepted it.

Known for his short appearance and unique dialogue delivery, he had acted in close to 70 films so far, including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi.

Thavakalai alias Chittibabu died in Chennai on Sunday (Feb 26, 2017).  He is 42 and is survived by wife Podhumani.

According to sources close to his family, Thavakalai, who came home last night (Feb 25, 2017) after attending the shoot of a Malayalam film, started vomitting this morning (Feb 26, 2017). He asked his wife to get him water, and collapsed after drinking it, as he suffered a massive cardiac arrest.