Priyan not going for item girls in his Bollywood films??? Gimme a break! Almost every Hindi film of his has the staple element of skimpily clad girls prancing around in mini skirts. I hope u have seen Garama Masala for instance, the infamous Boeing Boeing remake??! Since you were talking about merit, I just couldnt help commenting.

And there needs to be a very imperative correction in one of your statements. Its not “sticking onto good stories”, but “sticking onto good stories that arent his own.”

Again, you have deviated from the topic as well. We arent here to discuss the number of television runs a Priyan film has had, (I am sure they are huge favourites in the ‘Mumbai circuit’ as you claim) but rather on the ethics of ‘creative lifting’.

how do you guys compare meera to manju warrier? i feel meera is more talented than manju bcos shes more spontaneous than manju.

Saywar Thirumeni and Mayapponman shown ‘again and again’?? i have not seen these films more than once or twice in these channels.., but if u see other hindi movie chanels..like zee cinema, star gold etc,(and all local cables across mumbai) u can see atleast one film of priyan on every 2 days.. , his films are family films. which every normal middleclass man in india likes. at least he is not going for item girls and showman heroes like evryother directors.but sticking onto good stories as the soul of a film.

@jibs, looks like u have taken this comments as personal. Please dont do that. nobody here have problem with anybody. and moreover, we both have similar likes for meera jasmine..:)

1. hello my dear..and akkare akkare may not have been the best of priyan hits but Thenmavin Kombath,Advaitham , Kilukkam, Vandanam,Chithram, Mukunthetta Sumitra Vilikkunnu, Vellanakalude Naadu, Cheppu, , Ninnishtam Ennishtam, Thalavattam,Aram + Aram = Kinnaram, Boeing Boeing and Poochakkoru Mookkuthi ? were hits. you cant deny that. these were released in the 80’s and eary 90’s. some of these are inspired and nobody denies the fact. but these movies after customization to malayali audience offer unadulaterated comedy sans any double meanings and they have stood the test of time as people still nostalgically recall the comedy of those times (sathyan and srini were also there i admit) and bemoan the mimicry stuff being shown these days. Priyan undoubtedly is the king of comedies in malayalam, albeit slapstick. Then again talking of originality – advaitham, midhunam, vellanakalude naadu were not lifted. Proves that he can survive with original stuff also.

2. where did i say mithunam is a flawless classic? it is a very good movie which portrayed the helplessness of a man sandwiched between his attemots to eke a living and his family problems. it was not a big hit but defintely it had a lot of comedy. the jagathy-innocent, innocent-lal scenes were hialrious

3. about cable channels – if you read jibs comments he implies the people of 80’s were dumb as there was only doordarshan and no cable tv. but people then also knew what was good and what was bad. there were english movies released in kerala then too. now about sayvar thirumeni and mayaponman – asianet shows priyan hits like kilukkam, chitram, midhunam, advaitham etc umpteen times almost once every 2 months. comapred to that, the frequency of sayvar thirumeni and mayaponman is very less. The TRP ratings always shoot up when a hit movie is shown. the “blockbuster chalachitram” phrase is nonsense, i agree but in the case of priyan movies shown again and again it is because they were genuine hits and not pseudo hits.

4. Its not that i didnt take the analogy. I had a point to prove.

In case you havent noticed, I was talking about a steep decline in Priyan’s career, especially discernible in his last releases in Malayalam cinema. I am not talking abt the so-called hits that he might have had in his ‘inspired prime’, if you might call it that. There is nothing wrong in suggesting that they were hits, but it doesnt help much to speak of them, especially supreme crap like Hello My dear wrong number, Boeing boeing, and Akkare akkare akkare as if they are yardsticks in Comedy Movie history.

Its not that we (allegedly myself and jibs) are ignoring your “very valid point” that Priyan had hits. Lets get this straight here. What we have been trying to say is that Priyan had hits, YES, but these HITS are straight lifts, and this Lifting is WRONG; as far as the man doesnt have the u-know-what to acknowledge that he has been ‘inspired’, he remains as plain a lifter as a petty thief.

And this is very important. We are not here to discuss Priyan’s hits. if you are talking about hits, it shows that YOU ARE THE ONE whos wavering off topic. the topic, by the way is about ‘lifting’. I hope the point is clear.

Apparently I dont think we can have a discussion on the quality of these movies either, since you talk of Mithunam as if its a flawless classic. You need to face it, that this film was a whiner at the box-office and that its no trend setter or even a trend holder by any chance. It was a boring movie that met with a deserving end.

[quote]Can you please also explain why these cable channels (who according to you exposed Priyan) show Priyan hits again and again?[unquote]

What sort of a question is that? These channels air movies like Saywar Thirumeni and Mayapponman ‘again and again’. I dont remember these films having run for more than a week. Are you trying to relate the hit status of these films with their channel runs? I guess it shud just be the oppsoite, since hit films arent randomly shown on TV. The ones repeatedly shown are the ones that come disguised as ‘blockbuster chalachitrams’, and you very well know to which category they belong.

The wallet again, was an analogy. I am sorry and cant help it if you took it literally.