The scheming villain in many films from ‘Gentleman’ to the recently released ‘Malayan’ and ‘Karthik Anitha’, Rajan P Dev is in a coma, following a lung failure. The Malayali actor has acted in more than a 100 films and is currently undergoing admitted to a hospital in Kochi.

A Malayalam theatre actor, he entered Kollywood through Sarath-starrer ‘Suriyan’, and has been a popular choice to play the baddie. The actor had been taking rest at his town near Ernakulam recently, owing to poor health. But things deteriorated two days ago, when he vomited blood and was admitted to a hospital in Ernakulam.

He was diagnosed with a lung problem, because of which he has been shifted and admitted at the Lake Shore Hospital in Kochi. Doctors are treating him even as he is said to be in a coma.