Now, Venkatesh will be back with a feel-good movie. Vaasu ( Venkatesh, Bhoomika) and Gemini (Venkatesh, Namita) failed to impress the Telugu audiences.
Paarai is a remake of an old Malayalam film starring Mammootty as a rough lorry driver with a soft heart. As a result, Sarath Kumar will be quite busy till the next Lok Sabha election. His latest film, Paarai, is also said to be doing reasonably well. But his Arasu is still going strong not only in the rural centres, but in urban theatres too. Sarath Kumar, who had earlier given massive hits like Naattamai, hasn't had a hit in recent times. His Tamil film Saami must be the biggest hit of this year after his own earlier hit Dhool, but Sarath Kumar's Arasu (opposite Simran) is not very far behind. Through sheer word-of-mouth publicity, the film has succeeded.Ī Vikram film succeeding at the box office is not surprising.
But its storyline and believable characters attracted the family audience, especially women. On the other hand, no one expected Lohitadas's small budget film Kasturiman, starring Kunchako Boban and Meera Jasmine to do well at the box office. He desperately needs his next production, CID Moosa, to be a hit. Talk is that Dileep, a mimicry artist, has exhausted the numbers in his mimicry book. Meanwhile, though Dileep's release Thilakkam did very well, his next two films Sadananthante Samayam and Gramphone failed miserably at the box office. The Moplah dialect of the film, prevalent in the northern part of Kerala, was also not understood by the majority of the audience. He just couldn't carry off with conviction the role of a man trying to win back his love. The man who was once the king of comedy was seen labouring to make people laugh. People were curious.īut Mohanlal's rotund appearance seems to have finally worked against the film. Kilichundan Mambazham drew huge crowds only in the first few weeks because this film marked the coming together of Mohanlal, Priyadarshan and Srinivasan after a long time. Though Mohanlal's Kilichundan Mambazham had an unprecedented initial, Mammootty's Chronic Bachelor (directed by Siddique of the Siddique-Lal combination) finally scored and has been declared a big hit. And it appears they are having the last laugh, especially Mammootty.
It is now two months since the release of the films. When Mammootty and Mohanlal's films - Chronic Bachelor and Kilichundan Mambazham, respectively - were about to release, they were described as make-or-break films for the two actors who have ruled the Malayalam film industry for the last two decades.