Even Kamal Haasan sir played the character in his own way. Then people would have said that they can’t think of any actor other than Mammootty in this role.
If Mammootty had done this film, I know he would have played his character very well. So, it was Mammootty who asked me to approach Mohanlal for Drishyam. He was busy at the time and I had to wait for more than a year for him to get free. Is it difficult to imagine another actor in a role played by Mohanlal?Īt first, I approached Mammootty with this film. They were natural and at the same time entertaining. His films travelled between reality and fantasy. What films/filmmakers played an influential role in shaping your storytelling techniques? But, it so happens that my next two or three films are thrillers. But, I am right now planning a family film and a children’s film. I am a storyteller and I want to tell different kinds of stories. Everyone is asking for thrillers.Īlso Read | Jr NTR on RRR director SS Rajamouli: ‘This guy really has not let people down with their expectations’īut, you are not unhappy with that kind of a reputation, or are you? Nowadays, I ask my producers, ‘Why are you not making comedy films with me?’ I have done comedy films in the past. But, after doing Memories and Drishyam back to back, people have tagged me as a thriller director. So I really want to do movies in all genres. The next one was a comedy movie (My Boss). My first film was an investigative movie (Detective) and my second film was a family movie (Mummy & Me). When I was young, I read a lot of Agatha Christie’s stories, Sherlock Holmes and other novels. How did you develop your taste for thrillers? And parallelly, we began to work on the Telugu remake. After the dubbing was completed, I arranged a preview screening for him without music and background score. He told me he liked the script and wanted to see the film. I had sent him an English translation of it. When we finished shooting the Malayalam sequel, Suresh (Babu) sir called me and asked me for the film’s script. Had you planned the Telugu remake while making it in Malayalam? The original sequel in Malayalam and the remake of that sequel in Telugu happened in quick succession.
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