Malayalam actor who labored with Dulquer Salmaan, Tovino Thomas reveals he runs kirana retailer to make ends meet

Why Kannan Sagar runs a kirana retailer

Kannan posted an image of himself smiling in entrance of just a little kirana retailer. Revealing that he owns the shop, the actor wrote a protracted word on how ‘enterprise, too, is an artwork’ as a result of it’s constructed on ‘shopping for, promoting, and lending on credit score’. He wrote of how clients’ faces change when he asks them to pay delayed dues, with a few of them replying rudely or with informal threats.

The actor wrote that he ‘gently’ tries to ‘draw out their tales’ no matter how they behave with him. “No anger. No irritation. No loaded phrases. As a result of the second a dialog turns chilly or tense, a buyer is misplaced,” he writes, including, “Coming from an arts background, I struggled to search out my footing in enterprise. I used to be fooled greater than as soon as. I knew nothing about market ways. Many advised me outright – enterprise isn’t for somebody such as you.”

Kannan then revealed why he needed to run a kirana retailer within the first place regardless of appearing in movies, “This store was born from a persistent thought in my spouse’s coronary heart: that we’d like one thing regular for the protection of the household and to fulfill day by day wants as there are some days when artwork isn’t sufficient to maintain the household.”

Who’s Kannan Sagar?

Kannan has performed supporting roles in quite a few Malayalam movies via the years. He performed Dulquer’s buddy in Charlie (2015), a people singer in Biju Menon’s Mera Naam Shaji (2019), a key position in Tovino’s Anweshippin Kandethum (2024) and extra.

In a 2022 Fb publish, the actor revealed that individuals would initially snicker at him when he requested them for roles, however director Martin Prakkat, whom he has identified for years, supplied him roles in ABCD: American-Born Confused Desi (2013), Charlie, and Udaharanam Sujatha (2017), altering his life.