Overview

• On June 6, Shine Tom Chacko’s family car was struck head-on by a lorry on the Hosur National Highway near Palakottai while en route to Bengaluru for a court-ordered de-addiction programme, killing his father, C. P. Chacko.
• Shine suffered multiple fractures, a cracked spine and received about 30 stitches, his mother had a dislocated hip with a minor fracture, and his brother emerged unscathed.
• In late-June interviews, he emotionally described waking to ask his father for biscuits and then finding the car wrecked and his father unresponsive.
• Veteran actor Mammootty personally reached out to counsel him not to let grief consume him and offered a pledge of collaboration to help him stay grounded.
• The family held C. P. Chacko’s final rites on June 9 in Mundar and is now navigating the physical healing and emotional recovery in the weeks since the crash.