Renal disease has been plaguing Ponnambalam, a well-known actor in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and
hindi films who is known for playing evil characters, for more than a year. He requested assistance from his friends and colleagues in the profession to pay for his medical care when he was in need. He can be seen congratulating
megastar chiranjeevi for his admirable act in a recent viral video on social media.
Megastars
chiranjeevi and
dhanush graciously offered to help him out financially as a response.
ponnambalam instantly offered
chiranjeevi his support after communicating with him. The actor claims that
chiranjeevi offered him a helo worth around Rs. 45 lakh and covered his medical costs.
chiranjeevi was the only actor who stepped up and helped him financially when he was facing cash crunch situation.
He further said that
dhanush gave him financial assistance. Jaganathan, Ponnambalam's niece, offered to give her uncle a kidney.
ponnambalam is currently healing well after the procedure, which was successfully completed on
february 10 at a private hospital in Chennai.
ponnambalam has shared the screen with a number of well-known performers, including Vijayakanth, Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan,
arjun Sarja, and Sarathkumar.