Kochi, March 27 -- Malayalam filmdom's megastar Mammootty has been dragged into a controversy by a religious zealot O Abdullah, a Jama-at-e-Islami fundamentalist, who questioned the former for allowing another megastar Mohan Lal to offer prayers at the holy shrine of Sabarimala for the former's health.

Abdullah and another Islamic extremist Nazar Faizi who heads a powerful wing by name Samasta called for an atonement by Mammootty and they also demanded the megastar to apologise to the Muslim community in the State.

Mohan Lal's special pooja for the health of his friend Mammootty, whom he addresses as Mammookka (a mark of respect for his senior) was the fall out of an unsubstantiated news that the latter was suffering from colon cancer....