<p>Thiruvananthapuram: Popular Malayalam filmmaker Vinu, who helmed a handful of hit movies in collaboration with director Suresh, died in a hospital in Coimbatore following a brief illness, industry sources said on Wednesday.</p><p>The 73-year-old filmmaker was admitted to the hospital recently for some abdomen-related ailments, the sources said.</p><p>He is survived by his wife and two children.</p><p>The Suresh-Vinu pair gave several successful Malayalam movies including <em>Mangalam Veettil Manaseshwari Gupta</em>, <em>Kusruthi Kattu</em> and <em>Ayushman Bhava</em> among others.</p><p>Their last collaborative effort was the 2008 movie <em>Kanichukulangarayil CBI</em>. FEFKA Directors' Union, an organisation of Malayalam filmmakers, condoled his demise.</p>.<p>Vinu was working on a new psychological thriller film, it said in a Facebook post. Vinu would be cremated in Coimbatore on Thursday, it added.</p>
<p>Thiruvananthapuram: Popular Malayalam filmmaker Vinu, who helmed a handful of hit movies in collaboration with director Suresh, died in a hospital in Coimbatore following a brief illness, industry sources said on Wednesday.</p><p>The 73-year-old filmmaker was admitted to the hospital recently for some abdomen-related ailments, the sources said.</p><p>He is survived by his wife and two children.</p><p>The Suresh-Vinu pair gave several successful Malayalam movies including <em>Mangalam Veettil Manaseshwari Gupta</em>, <em>Kusruthi Kattu</em> and <em>Ayushman Bhava</em> among others.</p><p>Their last collaborative effort was the 2008 movie <em>Kanichukulangarayil CBI</em>. FEFKA Directors' Union, an organisation of Malayalam filmmakers, condoled his demise.</p>.<p>Vinu was working on a new psychological thriller film, it said in a Facebook post. Vinu would be cremated in Coimbatore on Thursday, it added.</p>