"ഞാൻ മോഹൻലാൽ എന്ന നടന്റെ കട്ട ഫാൻ..." | Prithviraj Says He Is a Mohanlal Fan

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Prithviraj Says He Is a Mohanlal Fan | "ഞാൻ മോഹൻലാൽ എന്ന നടന്റെ കട്ട ഫാൻ..."

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00:00We can hear you without mic, no problem, yeah.

00:04You are good listeners.

00:07My… Hi everyone, I am Suchitra from News18.

00:11And my question to you, first question will be to Rajiveta,

00:14like I really want to know how do you do that?

00:18Like your transition from the actor to director,

00:21in between singer and cinematographer, we…

00:24you fill every role in the industry actually.

00:27So how… it is so seamless but we know how challenge it is actually.

00:32And what was the testing point when it comes to Lose Your Universe,

00:36starting from 2018 to till now, what was the testing point you say?

00:41And if I have… ask one more question to any of…

00:44any one of you can answer.

00:47What is the one best thing Malayalam cinema does,

00:50which any other industry does not have?

00:54I assume the first question is directly at me, so yeah.

00:58No, I am… I consider myself more than anything a student of cinema.

01:04I understand that the primary craft that I practice is acting

01:08and I am always going to be an actor first.

01:12But having said that, I am a student of cinema

01:14and every opportunity I get to learn any craft in cinema,

01:17I will learn as much as I can.

01:20So for me, the entire process of filmmaking

01:22is a giant collaborative process

01:24where different people could be handling different things,

01:27same person could be handling multiple things.

01:30And I want to know, learn, practice and exercise as many crafts as I can

01:34because that is how you learn cinema.

01:36And forever I hope I will continue learning

01:39because it's a wonderful medium, a wonderful form of art,

01:42where the more you learn, you realize there is so much more to learn.

01:46So yeah, I hope I forever remain as astute a student as I am today.

01:51And yeah, if it seems like I am being seamlessly good

01:54at all these things that I do, I will take that as a huge compliment.

01:58It's always been a privilege to be able to be part of such an illustrious industry.

02:04And I am going to take the liberty of answering your second question as well.

02:07What I believe Malayalam cinema does differently from other industries.

02:11Since I am an actor who has had the privilege of working in multiple industries,

02:14I do think maybe one takeaway you could take from Malayalam cinema

02:20is the fact that we always do films and cinema with writers and writing as the fulcrum of it.

02:28You know, even Lucifer, even M. Puran, whatever cinema is happening in Malayalam,

02:34everything begins with the writer.

02:36The writer is who sets the project together.

02:39And that is how much power and respect we give our writers.

02:44Murali Gopi is the story screenplay and dialogue writer of this franchise.

02:50And I am privileged to be able to direct the content that is being written by someone

02:54who I believe is one of the finest writers of the country.

02:56So maybe that's something other industries can take a leaf out of.

02:59Maybe you should start asking yourself, why isn't there a Salim Javed today?

03:03You know, so...

03:06Hi.

03:07Okay.

03:08Hi, I am Tina Das.

03:09I work for The Print.

03:11First of all, I think I feel like I am in a candy shop

03:14because it's a great chance to meet all the people that I have been big fan of

03:18and to get it all in one stage.

03:20So, really excited about that and to watch the film.

03:23My first question is what you just mentioned about the section of the film,

03:26like a large portion of the film being in Hindi.

03:29I have seen that a lot of makers from different languages in South at this point,

03:34they are also trying to explore this market which is not just limited to a particular region.

03:39I mean, we saw for example in Pushpadu, there was a whole trailer launched back in Bihar

03:43which has a massive audience.

03:44I am from Assam and we have watched Malayalam movies.

03:47When I was growing up, like one of the things is we used to have segments on Sunday,

03:50different languages, all in Hindi unfortunately dubbed.

03:53Really badly dubbed unfortunately, but we would all watch it for the content.

03:58I want to know sir, when you were making it, like when the second part was coming out,

04:02was there like marketing strategies or thoughts in place

04:06that we would want to include this particular section which is now,

04:10like in the past five years, woken up to Malayalam content in a big, big way.

04:15Now, if you probably just ask somebody on the road, everybody will be like,

04:17yes, I have watched that Malayalam movie.

04:19Wasn't like that earlier.

04:21So, A, that was one question.

04:23The other thing is I have read multiple interviews where you have mentioned

04:26that you have always been a fanboy of Mohanlal sir.

04:29And I in fact read one where you said that it's actually harder for him

04:33because the fanboy comes out first and the director later.

04:36But now you are like two films old with him.

04:38So, what has been the change from the first to the second in this particular franchise?

04:43And have you now, has the fanboy decreased a little and the director comes first or is this same?

04:49So, I'll answer the second question first.

04:51Yeah, when I first directed him and I had the privilege of doing my first film with Mohanlal sir,

04:56I was a huge, huge fan and there were multiple moments where the fanboy in me indulged the director in me.

05:03But then I did a second and a third film and now I am an even bigger fan.

05:07So, yes, the fanboy in me is still very much awake and thrashing and I make no qualms about it.

05:13There are multiple times when I have let the fanboy in me indulge the director in me.

05:18But that's okay.

05:19I think I am a true Mohanlal fan.

05:22So, it's almost like I feel it's my responsibility to not have a bad shot of Mohanlal sir in my film.

05:29And I am first a fan of the actor that Mohanlal sir is.

05:33The fan of the star that Mohanlal sir is, is a distant secondary existence for me.

05:39So, that way I think I will always make sure that in my cinema I showcase him the way he truly deserves to the best of my capabilities.

05:48Secondly, this film or the whole world that this franchise exists in was first born as an idea somewhere in 2016, 2017,

05:58when I don't even think Bahubali 1 had released, I am not sure.

06:02So, terminologies like franchise, universe, sequel, prequel, part 1, part 2, chapter 1, chapter 2 and all were not in fashion back then.

06:12So, this is not a second installment of a franchise that is born out of the success of part 1.

06:17This was always designed to be three films.

06:20Having said that, the best quality about Mr. Murli Gopi's writing as far as these three films are concerned

06:26is that I believe that each of these three films will have an existence as a standalone film as well.

06:32So, I think for someone who is walking into a theatre to watch the second part that is Empuran,

06:37you will completely understand and relate to the film even if you have not seen part 1 of it.

06:43My hopes are that somebody who has seen this film and likes it will then want to go and discover the part 1 of it.

06:49But it is not going to be a case where you are going to watch this film and not understand the characters or plot if you have not seen part 1.

06:56And I would like to maintain that quality for the third part of this franchise as well.

06:59So, yeah, this is not a film that is born out of the newfound existence of the pan-India market.

07:06This was always ideated this way.

07:08Secondly, I really don't think a pan-Indian success can be designed.

07:12It has to organically happen.

07:13And how does it organically happen?

07:15Because you have a story that you want to say,

07:18you land on a method and a process through which you want to say that story,

07:21and then you be as honest as you can be with it.

07:24All the Hindi terrain dialogues, the English dialogues,

07:28the other languages that exist within this film are all part of it because the story organically travels like that.

07:34It was not me sitting with a pen and paper and deciding,

07:37let me have 30% of Hindi dialogues to 10% of Tamil dialogues.

07:41Let me cast one actor from there.

07:42Let me cast one actor from here.

07:43I haven't gone down that route.

07:45I'm going to trust my content and I'm going to trust the way I have made this film

07:49for it to find appeal across the country and across the world.

07:52And I hope my expectations are rightfully placed.

07:55We'll soon figure.

"ഞാൻ മോഹൻലാൽ എന്ന നടന്റെ കട്ട ഫാൻ..." | Prithviraj Says He Is a Mohanlal Fan

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