To be noticed, the first thing one should do is to stand next to a known person.
A slight similarity between Aashiq Abu's Mayanadhi and this one...
I don't feel any similarity between them.
I don't understand why people are thinking like that.
Walking out from Bangalore, and then entering a lift in Aluva,
and only after reaching a set in Nedumbasshery, the scene ends.
The most interesting factor about Maradona is that...
a criminal is in hiding for quite some time, and he's confined to that space.
So for an actor, what's most important...
are his co-actors and his interaction with them...
Proximity... But here, the proximity is with just a dog.
Most of the others are in the neighbouring or opposite flats,
or communicating through voice, etc.
That's a setting that poses many limitations for an actor.
So, how did you approach that?
How did you perform this whole confinement?
In fact, the greatest challenge of this movie...
is that one never realizes that while watching the movie.
That's because so much hard work has gone into it.
The interior of the flat was done in Aluva.
And the exterior was shot at Bangalore.
The wide angle shots at the balcony were shot in Bangalore,
and the close-ups were shot at a set here.
And my bedroom was shot at...
a set in Kochi. - Oh okay.
So when we start one scene outside the flat...
And the corridor was in Aluva...
The corridor and indoor shots were taken at Aluva, and exterior at Bangalore.
So in a scene, I walk from Bangalore and enter a lift in Aluva,
and only when I end up at a set in Nedumbasshery, that scene would end.
So keeping the continuity would be very difficult, right?
Maintaining the continuity was extremely difficult.
But since we had good assistant directors, even the hair continuity was proper.
In a scene, how it was when we started, they have maintained that throughout.
It's not so easy to maintain the emotional continuity in such a case.
I had to repeat the same scene at all these different places.
That was a different experience as an actor for me.
How to hold that emotion, how to maintain that continuity...
Watching what we shot earlier, and recreating the same emotion...
And coming to the dog and the pigeon...
At certain instances,
while we were shooting on set, like the interior of my bedroom,
or the close-ups at the balcony...
I think for around 16 days, we shot till 2 AM in the night,
and started again at 7.30 AM the next morning.
We finish shoot at 2 AM, reach our rooms, and then we've started again at 7.30 AM.
Because dates were tight, the shooting schedule became longer than we expected...
Because of the problems I mentioned earlier.
In such a situation, for all these 16 days..
the other artists came only once in a while.
Jins, Leona or Sharanya...
And the grandpa...
All the other time, it's only me, the dog and the pigeon.
So during night, when we would be taking a shot at 1 AM,
the dog might not be in a mood to do it.
The dog is not getting Lakhs for Rupees for this,
the dog is not getting any fame,
and even if gets the fame, its of no use to the dog.
So the dog might not work as hard as we're working.
And the dog didn't come asking for a chance, with a desire to act in movies.
We cast the dog because we needed it.
At 1 AM, it might just run off somewhere.
And then, once we find it from the set, and bring it back to the spot,
it may run away again.
So in such a situation,
when people say that the dog has acted well after watching the movie,
it's because of the crew's hard work.
Only if we take 20 or 30 shots, we might get a good reaction from the dog.
It's not a dog which passed out from a film institute.
So we had quite a lot of such difficulties.
While completing the shoot on the last day,
we felt that we had accomplished something great.
The last day of shoot was like...
I had to join 'Aami' the next day.
So after shooting like this for 16 days,
the previous night, my shots were completed and I was sent home.
Asking me to go sleep...
They didn't take a break.
Even after 2 AM, they kept shooting till morning,
and I came and joined again around 8 or 9 AM,
and they kept shooting continuously without taking any breaks,
and that night...
or maybe early morning next day.. we shot again till 2 AM,
I got out of Maradona's costume,
and went straight to join 'Aami' at 7 AM, to play Lord Sri Krishna.
It was really interesting...
This movie taught me a lot of new lessons as an actor.
If we look at your movies in the recent past,
In this movie, you were alone for a long time,
but still there's a lot of space for other actors to perform,
and they also have almost equal space and their own character graphs.
Be it Mayanadhi, Godha or Mexican Aparatha...
A space is there for both male and female actors.
There's no sole limelight on you...
And there's no decision that you're the hero, and the focus should be on you.
Did it happen organically or was it a conscious decision from your side?
That this will be your approach in your career...
Well, it's a conscious decision I made,
not to avoid things that come organically to me.
When a filmmaker writes a script and brings it to me,
I would never tell him that I need more importance in it.
I have the freedom to say that I didn't like that script.
But I won't say that I've got less importance, and I'll do it if you increase it.
In that case, I can choose scripts where I have much more importance.
But I'm not interested in cutting down anything from scenes meant for other actors.
Because I've been there. I also started by doing small roles.
I came in, by doing small scenes.
So I would never do that.
And, it's not like that anymore. Our cinema culture is changing...
Hero, villain... Such concepts are being forgotten...
And all we see are some characters.
And a character can be a hero or a villain,
according to the viewers' point of view.
He can be a supporting actor or whatever. They can decide what these characters are.
Our cinema only has characters and no heroes or heroines...
How will it be if there's such a situation?
But while narrating a story, if it has to be gripping,
it should follow one base character.
Someone called the protagonist.
We can say lead characters...
And at least we should try to do away with these ideal notions, right?
The director of this movie, Vishnu Narayan is a newcomer...
He has worked with Aashiq Abu as an associate earlier.
So how was his working style?
The characterization here, like you said earlier, is not an ideal character.
He's quite a hardened criminal.. He goes through a gradual transformation...
But that gradual transformation has been portrayed on screen very beautifully.
So what all similarities have you found between Aashiq's approach,
and his erstwhile associate Vishnu's approach?
And what all differences have you seen in them?
The similarity I felt between them is the desire to make sensible movies.
That's the quality of that school.
It should be sensible...
What they're doing should not go overboard.. They're very clear about that!
They try to treat everything as realistically as possible,
and add drama wherever required...
Because cinema can't exist without drama.
So by maintaining drama, they treat it realistically...
This is the similarity I've felt between them.
As film-makers, the two of them have two different ways,
of making me approach a character.
Coming to Aashiq-ettan... I still remember...
When we started Mayanadhi by shooting in Dhanushkodi,
one day he told me that he wanted to meet me in the evening.
I thought maybe what I was doing was not working out for him...
What would it be?
When I went and sat in front of him, he reluctantly asked,
'Is everything okay?' So he's asking...
whether Tovino is okay with everything else....
He said, 'Tovino, you've been cast because we're sure that you'll do well'.
So he had called me to ask, 'Is everything comfortable for you, Tovino?'
I went there wondering whether I had done something wrong...
So he's someone who treats us like that...
And he takes us to that character like that. That's Aashiq-ettan's style.
Vishnu-ettan was supposedly very short tempered,
from the time he used to work as an associate director.
He's very short tempered. It's a big problem for him if things don't go his way!
But before we started the shoot of the movie,
people like John Paul George (director of Guppy) had told Vishnu-ettan,
that nothing will happen if you keep shouting and making noise.
He told him that things will go smoothly only if you deal people with a lot of care.
And ever since that, even when he gets angry....
He transformed like this...
Every scene, and every minute detail, is in his mind.
He discusses it with me, and if I have a better opinion,
he tries to incorporate that...
So that's Vishnu-ettan's style.
Both are almost similar.
But their directorial visions are entirely different.
So while talking about similarity,
your previous film, Mayanadhi by Aashiq Abu,
and this one has a slight similarity...
If we really nitpick into it...
There's a slight similarity plot-wise...
A criminal is on the run...
There's an investigation going on for for him,
and a romance is also happening parallely.
We can say so broadly...
Such a similarity may be unintentional.
Did you think about it, while shooting this movie?
If you had thought about it, how did you overcome it?
But both of them are two distinct and different movies.
They both are distinct because two different film-makers made these two films.
The similarity might be because it's me who has acted in both of them.
But still, the characterisations are different...
Talking about the differences in characterisation...
To put it simply, Mathan doesn't undergo any transformation.
Mathan decides to settle down, at a certain point...
But his character doesn't change because of that.
He is focused about that.
Mathan is not someone who would deliberately attack another person.
He just ended up being in such situations.
But Maradona is evil. He is really evil.
He's not considerate even towards children.
But in his own circle, he's really happy and friendly...
His best friend Sudhi...
See, if you look at any criminal, even he would have best friends...
And criminals are not like...
in the past, a criminal had to be angry all the time...
He would have only this expression!
He would talk to his friend also like this. That's not how it is.
We can see actual criminals around us.
They have a life before and after becoming criminals.
In that life, they have friends and everything else...
So that's what I thought...
Instead of sketching a typical portrayal and not moving an inch from it...
After sketching his characters, I considered that he's also a human being...
He's not acting... In fact, he also has many layers..
That's how we treated Maradona.
Mathan has only one thing in life. Mathan is in love.
Mathan has a lot of stuff within him.
He doesn't express everything. He's a slight introvert.
These two things itself are major differences.
And even if you say that there's a similarity in the storyline,
Mathan is a metrosexual.. And the story is set in Kochi...
Even though it happens in Kochi & Madurai, Mathan is a metrosexual.
But Maradona is a small town boy.
A small town boy has grown up to become a goon.
So he is such a person.
So I didn't find any similarity there.
I watched the film only yesterday.
Though many told me about this similarity, to be frank, I never...
I actually self-criticize myself a lot...
But I didn't feel this at all.
I personally couldn't see Mathan in Maradona.
I'm not saying that I've done something extraordinary...
Considering the support that I got, the editing pattern and everything else...
I didn't feel any similarity between these two.
Even though both movies had the same editor.
Another thing that is discussed about, is your romantic hero image....
You've been doing good romantic roles for a while now.
You're getting awards called 'Romantic Hero'.
Be it Mayanadhi,
You started with 'Ennu Ninte Moideen'...
Even though it's a failed romance, you became a heartthrob ever since.
Initially you did villain roles, and then supporting roles...
When did you realize that you had the capability to pull off a romantic hero role?
Since when did you get the confidence that you can do this well?
I think it should be 'Ennu Ninte Moideen'.
In cinema, I think I did romance for the first time in 'Moideen'.
I was told to bring a proper romantic expression on my face, only then.
Maybe that's the one.
And in real life, I have experience in romancing.
I am quite romantic in real life.
Even now...
My wife and I had a love marriage...
But our romantic life is still quite awesome.
We may have big fights...
But then there are surprises...
We go on trips together, and all that...
These are all quite romantic for us.
Even though they might be small things,
it turns out to be romantic, because of our attitude.
So it's real life experience.
The romance in this movie is also quite different.
It starts with you humming a song...
After that you communicate through sound...
It's a relationship that grows gradually.
She objects initially...
Even though it's a pattern in romance, it has been presented very differently.
So how was your interaction with Sharanya during this movie?
It was good fun.
The writer Krishna Moorthy...
When he had written it itself,
we were all sure about one thing.
That Maradona should like the girl in the next flat, without seeing her initially.
Because there would have been many girls Maradona had seen and liked.
There might have been many other women in Maradona's life.
But beyond all that, the reason that the love Maradona feels for her is genuine,
because it's not just a skin-deep liking,
Instead, it's a deeper connection that they feel towards each other.
Though Maradona looks at her differently initially,
he shifts from that and understands that it's not that,
and he's actually in love with her,
That's because of this reason.
It's not just about beauty...
It's not just about external beauty, but something within...
It's her character that he falls in love with...
He falls in love with her because he understands that she has some stuff in her.
So we were sure about that from the beginning.
And Sharanya has also performed really well.
Those who have watched the movie have also said that.
I felt that Sharanya has paid a lot of attention to detailing...
While talking about romance,
you started this year by playing the epitome of romance - Sri Krishna.
Lord Sri Krishna!
So far, in Malayalam cinema, no popular lead actor has done a God's role,
or a divine character.
People from outside came and did 'Njan Gandharvan' or Sri Krishna in 'Nandanam'.
I don't know why, but I haven't seen many lead actors doing that.
So you wouldn't have had a prior example or reference,
while approaching Sri Krishna's role.
How did you land into that performance?
Isn't it a very difficult choice to play a character like Lord Sri Krishna?
Kamal sir had a clear cut idea about it in his mind.
We didn't want the cliché blue colour.
When you say 'Karvarnan', our old movies & serials had him painted in blue...
It's not blue actually!
Even though he's dark, he's really appealing.
It is supposed to be a very beautiful colour ever since those days.
They painted him blue, because they couldn't find any other colours matching it.
But if we actually look at the exact name, it's not blue.
So he had told me that we don't need that, and we don't need that cliché.
There's a high chance that it can get really dramatic.
Especially the idea that we've always got about how God would talk, is like that.
So we had planned to avoid that as well.
But what Kamal sir wanted was that...
He should be really calm and composed...
He said that the divinity should be felt somewhere.
A grace! - Yes.
I told him, 'Sir, I'll try'
'If there's anything, just tell me. I'll do as you say'.
And then when I actually did it, even for me...
He says stuff that can be booed at, if it doesn't work out in the theatre.
He asks, 'Are there any girls who haven't loved me, in all the seven worlds?'
But people took it all in the right sense...
I've benefited a lot because of that movie.
A major section of people who didn't know me,
started recognizing me through that movie.
Many people saw 'Aami' and told me that I've done very well in my first movie.
So I told them that it's not my first.. I've been doing quite a lot of movies.
And they would say 'Sorry. We hadn't noticed'.
Because they might not be usual film-goers.
They would have watched it because of the Madhavikkutty/Kamala Surayya factor.
Kamal sir has an audience, Manju Warrier has an audience.
So for me to get noticed between all of them, this film was a major reason.
Coming to 'Theevandi',
It's expected to release during Onam...
The song 'Jeevamshamayi' from that movie,
has become one of the biggest hits of the year.
And even in that movie, you're not playing a character who's ideal...
he's quite notorious, and a chain-smoker...
Because for everyone, a hero image would be like a perfect gentleman...
And usually they select roles with clean images...
If it's a young and upcoming hero.
Characters with flaws.
So 'Theevandi' has a new team, a new director... What can we expect?
People always like people with flaws.
There are people who loved the thief called Madhavan in Chekku (Meeshamadhavan).
There are people who loved a don called Vincent Gomez (Rajavinte Makan).
Be it any actor... whenever they have done such roles,
they've received a lot of acclaim.
'Devasuram'! - Yes.
Devasuram is an ultimate example.
He's not a perfect gentleman.
But he realizes it at a certain point.
Even then, he gets a second chance. Everyone gets a second chance.
And no one is bad by birth.
So it's fun to do that.
And, all of us...
we would have many positive things, and many negative things.
The ratios of these would vary in each person.
But these two are there in every person, definitely.
There's a devil and an angel.
The percentage might increase or decrease from person to person.
That's all.
So that's what I also consider while picking characters.
In Theevandi, especially...
They are people very close to me...
Especially its write, Vini Viswa Lal...
Just after he had written 'Second Show',
he wrote another movie called 'Starring Pournami'.
I had acted in both 'Starring Pournami' and 'Koothara'. So that's there.
And Fellini, who was the associate director of 'Second Show'.
Be it 'Starring Pournami' or 'Koothara', he was always with us during the shooting.
Fellini is a human being whom I am personally very fond of.
Be it Fellini or Vini, they are very genuine people.
I think people from the Malabar area are especially like that.
So they have that quality.
And Fellini's father is really into cinema...
You can guess that from his name itself, that his dad would be really fond of cinema.
Fellini's elder brother's name is very interesting. He's Godard.
Is that so?
So there's a Godard & Fellini in the same house.
So cinema is everything for Fellini as well.
So we've been discussing movies for a long time.
Even while shooting, we thoroughly enjoyed the process.
Our crew shot together for almost 45 days.
All of us remained as ourselves.
And not as director Fellini, hero Tovino, or writer Vini Viswa Lal..
Nothing like that!
All of us would be like, 'Come on! Let's start'
From the time all of us come for shoot, it's a celebration.
I think people felt that same vibe through that song.
The place where we shot, Payyoli... hasn't been explored much.
The small towns or villages that we would have seen during our childhood...
It's like that over there even now.
It's a place that maintains that purity even now.
So...
it's that beauty which is going to be reflected in that movie.
It's a political satire.
But we've narrated that through the story of a chain-smoker, his love,
and people around him.
This is never a movie that glorifies smoking.
I don't understand why people are thinking that way.
Many think so...
They say that I'm smoking too much in movies.
It's not me, it's the characters who're smoking.
When those characters were written,
they were given such character traits.
So if I'm smoking in those movies, it's because it has significance in the story!
But otherwise, I haven't smoked in ABCD, or 'Ennu Ninte Moideen'.
It wasn't necessary in them.
I don't smoke when it's not necessary.
Moreover, it's not for sytlized shots as well.
It's not being glorified there.
I don't act in smoking scenes in movies for stylized shots.
Many aspects about the characters are defined like this.
Even in Maradona, you struggle so much to smoke a cigarette.
In Maradona, he stubs a cigarette, saves it, and smokes it later.
So there was so much desperation?
One thing you'd understand if you notice towards the end...
During the beginning of the movie, we show him buying a packet of cigarettes.
Towards the tail end, when he asks for a cigarette in a shop,
he's given a packet.. And then he says that he needs just one.
He has cut down on it.
So these are all important things in the narrative.
This is one of the changes he went through.
The movie 'Theevandi' talks very genuinely about a chain smoker.
Many things in his life are associated with this.
As he wakes up in the morning, his daily routine starts by lighting a cigarette.
He starts his daily life only then. He's such a person.
He has his own justifications for all that.
That's what we're saying through this movie.
Your Instagram stories are very interesting.
We can see many creative and unique stuff in there.
I think Soubin and you are the experts in this.
Is it because you have a filmmaker inside you?
You've worked as an AD earlier. How do you spot these stuff?
You're finding some kind of fun in your travels or even daily activities.
It's just for fun...
When something strikes our mind suddenly, we try it out, right?
And I'm doing very simple things.
But doing all that, I can now hold a camera like this without shaking.
It's daily practice, right?
I can hold a camera like this, without moving or shaking even an inch.
The other day I had posted an Insta story...
That story was like...
When I zoom out from the clouds, you realize that I'm sitting in a flight...
And when the camera is flipped, my face can be seen and I go...
It goes into a selfie mode by the end of it.
The cinematographer of the movie I'm doing now,
Sinu Siddharth, who was sitting next to me...
He shot the whole activity I did on his phone.
That's when I noticed my hand movement which was going like this...
So I'm not bad... - You've learned!
But I don't think this is related to film making.
But maybe because you have that interest in you...
The interest is definitely there.
But I'm not going to direct a movie tomorrow,
just because I post some Instagram stories.
But I definitely have that desire.
It's a job that's done by people who have a lot of experience.
Film making is a job that's done by people who are extremely talented...
In a way, it's a much more difficult job than acting.
For a director, apart from just saying action and cut...
A director has a huge responsibility of co-ordinating a full crew together.
And a director has no rest.
An actor can rest between shots.
The others working in that movie may not even get time to rest.
So it's a field which requires a lot of patience, talent and knowledge.
Once I attain all that, some day, I may give it a try.
If we look at your career...
In different movies, you've done small, supporting roles and villain roles...
You've worked with a lot of our established stars.
So I'll tell you a few names...
So your favourite performance of theirs or their quality as an actor.
You can say it very shortly...
Try if you can specifically mention those...
What would it be for Mohanlal?
If we have to talk about his best performance, we won't finish talking today.
'Devasuram', definitely.
It's a cult film.
And his quality.. What I've understood while working with him is that...
There are many things which we can try to emulate by looking at him.
He has no complaints...
Even if it is a new director,
while he is acting,
he calls the director, 'Sir'...
While taking a shot, to maintain its continuity,
he doesn't get up and go to his caravan in between.
He sits there and talks to everyone...
After that...
He pays a lot of attention to his own continuity and everything else...
He does it with the same excitement and sincerity,
of a newcomer acting in his first movie.
Even if Lalettan doesn't do any of this, no one would blame him.
Yet, he does all this and that's something we can try to emulate.
He's someone whom I like as an elder brother.
The quality that all these people have, is the passion towards cinema.
And Prithviraj is a good technician as well.
The jobs done by everyone working in cinema.. He knows them all!
It's a quality that we see in people like Kamal Haasan and Mel Gibson...
And because of that, I'm really looking forward to the film he's directing.
I'm a part of that movie...
And as an actor...
the performance of his that I like the most...
I liked him in a movie called 'Chakram'...
He did that movie at that age.. It's still very interesting...
Like I said, the list is long...
But I've felt that his performances were really interesting
in Ayalum Njanum Thammil & Memories.
And Manju Warrier...
Interacting with Manju Chechi is like interacting with one of my cousin sisters..
So she's that close, like an elder sister...
Even though we worked together in 'Aami' for the first time,
we knew each other earlier.
We're both from Thrissur.
So there's that closeness as well.
She's extremely sweet.
The reason why I always feel like calling her Manju Chechi,
is because of that respect.
At the same time, she's like a friend too.
We had gone for NAFA awards recently...
I had gone with my family. Manju Chechi was also there.
We all could feel a really close bond.
So I'm really close to Manju Chechi that way.
I prefer her performances during the period of Kanmadam and Summer in Betlehem...
But even now, including Aami, whatever she does, she does it well.
He is a very good friend of mine.
I don't have much knowledge about cars and stuff..
I'm not crazy about cars like him, and I don't know much about them too.
So we had very few common topics to talk about.
But now we have a common topic...
because both of us are very enthusiastic fathers.
Now we talk a lot about our kids.
And performance wise, I liked Dulquer a lot in Kammatipaadam.
And I really liked him in OK Kanmani.
There are many more movies to list out...
Dulquer is someone who's constantly working hard and improving.
I'll never able to speak so well in so many different languages.
That's something really commendable about him.
It's something that Malayalis can be proud of.
Before this, among the youngsters...
It has been only Prithviraj & Dulquer Salmaan who've done Hindi, Tamil...
They have done films in all these languages,
and they have done well!
So that's something that makes me very happy.
So when they go there and do that as ambassadors of Malayalam cinema,
tomorrow there will be an audience to watch Malayalam cinema,
and along with that they would watch my movies too.
I met Parvathy during the shoot of 'Ennu Ninte Moideen'.
I had spoken to her very recently...
Among the actresses we have in Malayalam now, she's undoubtedly the best performer.
She's an amazing artist.
She is sensible...
There's not much drama or stuff like that..
She's a good artist who says everything to your face.
And my favourite performance...
You saw one of her best performances right in front of your eyes.
Definitely!
But maybe, something even better would be her performance in 'Take Off'.
It was a stunning performance.
And the most exciting news is that, in Maari 2...
You're making an entry as Dhanush's villain into Tamil.
Even in Malayalam, your entry to mainstream cinema was as a villain.
Even in Tamil, you're a villain... - The other day...
When was their birthday?
July 29th or 28th...
So Dulquer Salmaan and Dhanush share the same birthday...
So I was telling them...
Everything is coming together!
They both share the same birthday.
And I've made an entry as a villain to them in different languages.
So, I had done a movie in Malayalam before ABCD.
'Prabhuvinte Makkal'.
It had a good concept and many people like it...
But it wasn't noticed in a big way or anything.
The first character I was noticed in, was the character I played in ABCD.
Just like that, a movie of mine released in Tamil...
It wasn't noticed in a big way or anything.
It had good content...
But that movie wasn't noticed at all...
I can't judge how good it was as a movie.
So the second movie I'm doing is...
So it's the same strategy that I applied here...
Did you do it deliberately?
If I have to be noticed in front of the people who don't know me,
the first thing I should do is to go and stand with someone they know.
That's a very clever strategy.
See.. While I'm not being noticed by anyone...
If I go and stand next to someone whom everyone notices,
they would ask 'Who's that?', and I'll be noticed at least like that.
That's what happened in ABCD...
That's what's going to happen in Maari.
But just like in ABCD... even in Maari, I have a good character role.
Villain means.. he's not just a villain who's angry all the time.
But it's a very interesting character role.
I have an interesting look. I'm waiting for its First Look to come out.
Amazing!
Someone who won a National award when he was just 26...
Someone who has acted in so many movies, and now working in Hollywood too..
That's not a small achievement. It's a huge achievement.
So while working with someone like that...
His professionalism is something amazing.
He has a great part to play in making that crew stay together.
While having lunch...
he calls the director, cameraman, me, everyone..
'Come. Let's eat together', he says...
And we eat food brought from his house, sitting in his caravan.
And like that...
even while doing fights...
he fights with a fighter and an actor differently.
Our body never gets hurt in any way!
I think there are chances of me being hurt while fighting with his dupe,
than while fighting with him.
He was really sweet.
That entire crew was really sweet.
Generally, when we go to other languages, what we experience...
The reason for an extra affection and care that we experience...
is the image created by our senior actors...
'If you're from Malayalam, then you'll be a good actor!' That's how they think.
And they expect so much out of us.
And they respect us that much, and have kept us at that level.
That's definitely a good name that our seniors have created for us.
So even when we go there and perform, there's that difference.
'He has come after learning from Malayalam cinema'....
It's said that once we learn to drive an Ambassador car, we can drive any car!
It's like that.
If we've learned acting from Malayalam cinema, we can act well wherever we go.
Your upcoming projects? You just said that you're going to join Lucifer.
That's a huge project...
What are your other projects?
The films awaiting release are - Oru Kuprasiddha Payyan.
Directed by Madhupal sir.
Theevandi is ready for release.
Theevandi might come before Kuprasiddha Payyan.
Mostly, I might have a release almost every month.
After Kuprasiddha Payyan, it's Maari 2 which will be my next release.
Then there are movies being shot...
They will be announced soon.
I'm going to join Lucifer next...
Once I complete Lucifer,
I'll be joining a film directed by Salim Ahamed.
Then there's a movie by a director called Jeo Baby.
He has directed '2 Penkuttikal' and 'Kunju Deivam'.
If I have to introduce him further,
he was the first script-writer of popular serials like 'Uppum Mulakum' & 'Marimayam'.
If you watch both the movies by Jeo Baby,
you'll definitely like them, and they make you think a lot.
That's the quality of his movies.
It is one of the best scripts that I've heard.
According to my sensibility,
what the director Jeo Baby told me was one of the best scripts I've heard.
That's another movie I'm going to do.
So there are quite a few.
You have your hands full!
I'm going through a good phase now.
In between all this, I don't feel like taking rest.
I might want to take rest.
But since the movies I'm doing are all exciting,
I want to keep doing them. I don't want to miss any of them.
So the only thing I can miss out on, is rest.
For that rest, I can sleep in the car while travelling.
So I can adjust like that...
I'm definitely enjoying this current phase of my career.
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