Ace comedian Jagathy Sreekumar, who has been inactive in the film world following a life-altering accident, faced the arclights on Thursday after a gap of seven years -- but for an ad film.

It was in the wee hours on March 10, 2012, that the actor who in a career spanning 41 years acted in more than 1000 Malayalam films, was seriously injured in a road accident near Kozhikode in north Kerala while he was dashing off to reach a shooting location that morning on the Kerala-Karnataka border.