Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Parunthu' is not a letdown - Padmakumar

'Parunthu' was not planned as an answer to 'Maadambi', which came up
with some dialogues against `Parunthu'. There were some pressures
from fans associations to include some dialogues to counter the ones
in the latter allegedly targeted against the film. But I preferred
not to stop low and add something that would in no way enhance the
thematic content of 'Parunthu', said Padmakumar in a press meet at
Kozhikkode.

"More over I am pretty happy with the film that was created entirely
from my creative point of view. The movie even brought in more than a
crore to its producers in the opening week'

Padmakumar further points out that cutting production costs is the
only way to help the industry to survive. He is also happy that
Mammootty, his hero in the film gave him all liberties to create a
free hand character who is negative to the core. ''Not many
superstars could have agreed in doing such a character'' notes
Padmakumar.

The director also made it a point to announce that his next film will
also feature Mammootty in the lead. "When I met him at Pollachi, last
week, he told me that he was pleased with 'Parunthu'. "I hope to
start the new film by the first months of next year. This movie will

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