Comments on: Mohanlal’s hypocrisy

By: Malayalam lover

Malayalam lover — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:40:00 +0000

Mohanlal is right..Malayalees nees to be a littile more concerned about their own films.Here, people criticise mohanlal and call it hypocrisy just to show that they are more open minded and all..But, if we do not take an effort to control other language craps, its damn sure that Malayalam movies will vanish without trace in no time…Only after everything is gone, we will realise what we have been has backfired on us…Tamilians and Telgites have bigger markets and nothing will happen to their movies even if Kerala market is not there…But, Malayalam has no where in the world to go other than our small state, Kerala..Malayalees pls understand, its not a shame to be abit more concerned about what we have of our own..Pls do it rather than thinking accepting outiside state craps is so ‘cool’ and ‘stylish’…

By: shiran

shiran — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:32:57 +0000

Its funny when someone starts seeing competition as a cause for concern. If they were half as bothered about their own scripts, it could perhaps have made some difference.

By: Pandora’s Box | varnachitram

Pandora’s Box | varnachitram — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:57:25 +0000

[...] Recently we made a post criticising Mohanlal on his statement that while he and his producers should have the financial freedom to do whatever they like, while theater owners should be subject to artifical restrictions. According to the proposed restriction, the theater owners should give preference to Malayalam movies during the Holiday season and delay the release of English, Tamil and Hindi movies. Speaking at the promotional tour of his Ivide Swargamaanu, Mohanlal said: Some kind of regulation has to be put on other language films in Kerala otherwise our industry will crash. Atleast during the holiday season like Christmas, priority should be given to Malayalam releases. The other states are protecting their industry, but in Kerala today we have to compete with Avatar, 3 Idiots and a Vettaikaran. [...]

By: Unmesh

Unmesh — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:21:39 +0000

A 4 crore movie competing with a 1200 one. You call that competition?

By: Unmesh

Unmesh — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:19:32 +0000

Lal and Mammootty might last for another 5-6 years. The essence of what lal said will be relevant only after that. Our young actors won't get theatres to portray their talent or they hve to be content with 3rd class ones.

Please understand that the audience that we hve is very small and they wld want to watch one movie every festival… Obviously they wld prefer the gloss of an avatar to that of Paleri or a Swargam…..Our 4-5 crore movies can never fight to a 40 or a 1200 crore movie. Let us give preference to our movies if we want this art to sustain after the Big M's.

Finally it is true that lal said all this because his 'IS' is not getting crowds (Sad because it certainly is genuinly good with a nice message). But if we don't take positives out of this, I fear for our movies…….

By: PVR

PVR — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:05:43 +0000

It may look like his hypocrisy, but he is speaking for the whole Malayalam film industry. We have seen Punjabi and Marathi film industries vanishing because of Hindi films. No Punjabi film was screened in the past few years, if I am not wrong. Regarding competition, since we have a small market, Malayalam films can't afford to compete with a film made with a budget of dollars equivalent to Rs.1500 crores or a Hindi film with a Rs.100 crore budget. They have upper hand in technicalities and marketing due to this high budget. Script-wise Avatar is nothing new (or incompetent), it's only graphics that pulls people in. If we don't put some restrictions on other language films (as Karnataka, TN and other states did), we will see Malayalam films disappearing without leaving a trace.

By: Visakh M

Visakh M — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:57:04 +0000

Amidst the arguments,I saw the movie "evidam swargamanu".Though you cannot call it Roshan Andrews's best,it still is a really good movie.The movie really showcases the power of real estate mafia in modern kerala.It had some good performances from mohanlal,Thilakan etc and a surprisingly majestic performance from Lalu Alex.The movie has 3 heroines and surprisingly no songs.Each one had their own roles and were good enough.The thing i wanted to pointed out was that when i saw it from Ernakulam Kavitha theater the show wasn't house full;its a bit surprising for a good movie like that and considering the fact that it was released not more than 10 days.
Forgive me if i am wrong;but personally i feel that if this film doesn't atleast become an average hit then i would only blame our viewers for it.Please don't consider me as a Mohanlal fan,i just told a fact watching a good movie with 20% empty chairs in the theater.