Comments on: Can Manichithrathazhu be remade?

By: Suresh Krishna

Suresh Krishna — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:54:57 +0000

Since it was part directed by Sibi, Priyan and Siddique – Lal is there any break or detaisl, which part was handled by them?

By: Suresh Krishna

Suresh Krishna — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:51:03 +0000

Watched it again yesterday for nth time. Nice to observe the points mentioned above. This movie has almost achived perfection!!

By: James

James — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:26:29 +0000

Watching this movie, I realize how natural Suresh Gopi’s acting was back in those days. Now he is just too over the top in most of his films. It’s irritating. After seeing the TV show Koodishworan I feel as if he’s bringing in his Bharath Chandran persona to his real self as well. I feel like he has been typecast, but can’t blame him as that’s the only offers he gets.

By: Gayathri

Gayathri — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:06:24 +0000

Wonderful article Mr. Kishor! I can’t believe I missed reading this article all these years. In any event, I’m thankful that I finally got the opportunity to read it now

I wish directors like P.Vasu, Priyadarshan and Swapan Saha had read this article before embarking on the remake of this film in other languages. Perhaps this article could have given them an idea on why remaking a classic as Manichitratazhu is such a bad idea.

Nithil mentioned about the plight of Tamilians who watched the Tamil version Chandramukhi. I’m a Tamilian myself and I agree wholeheartedly with his opinion.

I first watched Manichitratazhu in 1998. I didn’t know Malayalam and the film didn’t have any subtitles. Nevertheless, not even at a single point of time did I felt lost with the narration. Each and every scene of the film was epic and every actors did their part perfectly. Shobana needless to say, was just amazing as Ganga and Nagavalli respectively.

Even though Malayalam and Tamil share a close relationship in terms of language and even culture to an extent, I can safely say that the magic of Manichitratazhu can never be recreated in Tamil even if the remake happens to be a scene-to-scene-copy. And you good Sir have explained in detailed on why this magical epic should be left as a classic that it is instead of being massacred in the name of remakes. Thanks for this insightful article

By: vineeth

vineeth — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:15:09 +0000

The casting of this movie is perfect……i dont think anyone other than mohanlal could do the role of Dr.Sunny so perfectly ……once fazil said that the comic scenes bw kpac and mohanlal was done with the help of improvisation from the actors……another scene we notice which shows the brilliance of the director and scriptwriter is wen ganga excitedly shows the ornaments to the doc.Look at Mohanlals expression after that…….it shows dissapointment knwing tat his frds wife is the patient…..amazing movie….

By: Kishor Kumar

Kishor Kumar — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:34:06 +0000

Thanks for the update Jayashree. On second thoughts, an artist like Bhagyalakshmi would never have allowed such a unique, once-in-a-lifetime, dual-language/dual-character dubbing opportunity to slip by.

We have heard Bhagyalakshmi speaking native-like Tamil in Mazhavilkavady. She has spent considerable part of her life in Chennai. Its possible that they used some kind of filtering technique to create a more bass voice for Nagavally. The first dialogue spoken by Nagavally, “Yaarath ? “, is still reverberating in my mind.

By: Jayashree

Jayashree — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:59:24 +0000

Oh I forgot to update,sorry Kishore,I have it from an authoritative source that it was Bhagyalakshmi herself who dubbed for both the voices Shobhana used.