Son of celebrated guru Moozhikkulam Kochukuttan Chakyar, Margi Madhu’s first love is Koodiyattam, a mix of dance, music, mime and theatre. Apart from acting he has written the acting manual for four plays, ‘Dooth Ghadodgajam,’ ‘Kanchukeeyam,’ ‘Karnabharam,’ and ‘Macbeth.’ Along with his elder brother Margi Narayanan he has been striving to bring back audiences to an art that would have long become extinct: This he does as a lecturer of Koodiyattam at the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit where he is inspiring a new generation of performers and at ‘Nepathya,’ a centre he started in Moozhikulam in 2003.
He has performed in many national and international venues, including the prestigious Kennedy Center at Washington DC, USA in June 1977. Margi Madhu has also performed for the International jury of UNESCO.