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Sunday, February 4, 2024
Flop of Mohanlal film is a State Disaster - Why ?
A Mohanlal film flopping at Kerala box office is State wide disaster on lines of 2018 floods. No Film industry of any language in India goes through such pangs.
The recent flopping of Maalaikottai Valiban is the reason that prompted the need to analyse the phenomena. If you open YouTube or browse through FB- X and that it was not a bad film. Firstly, Mohanlal who is Lalettan in other words a Big Brother to Keralites has dpne an extraordainry job as Valiban but it was the Sangh Parivar that let loose a hate campaign against the film. Why ?. He was invited to Ayodhya temple function but he did not go. Turning down an invitation given only to him is unjustiable for Sangh Parivar got angry. So all the first day crowd as per official estimates accounted to close Rs 6 crores revenue through ticket sales were sanghis in Lalettan fans garb. They came out and let loose a volley of abuses after FDFS. It had a cascalading wffect. Film bombed.
So Sangh Parivar has hijacked the fan clubs. Now that this theory was floated, comes another. An AD of Director Lijo said that the intro scene of Lal was so huge that he would not be able to see inside a movie hall as it would reveraberate. The scene was a tame one and so viewers felt cheated. This comment set the mood for viewers to think that all that was coming was hot air. AD name is Tommu Pappachan and he has gone missing.
Another man who deliberately created overhype for Valiban is Actor Prithviraj. He creates hype for other films but underplays his pwn film. The videp of him saying that he was in knowledge of Valiban story and it was a film that was something out of this World. He is directing Lal in sequel to a film that has Lal in the lead. Now this hype created an overexpectation and so it bombed.
Another reason is a reviewer Aswant KoK. He came dressed as Valiban and in a YT review made fun of the film. From the reaction of pro Valiban group, if any film is torn by KoK, majority (or is it total ? ) boycott the film.
Now Producer Shibhu John has a new theory. When Lijo directed Mammootty in offbeat film , it clicked and why ?. Lalettan fans do not like their hero in experiemental roles. Mammootty fans encourage their hero. so it is fans who are culprits ?
Lijo shoots the film and after release, he does not talk about it. Now a policy change. He os all over the place talking about Valiban to those critics who think that Keralites are idiots who cannot see a genius in their midst. Some channels on YT say that the film is collecting big money after 10 days as movie goers have realised that they were hoodwinked.
Producer has asked writer to work on Part 2. So in short, many external factors destroyed a film of Kerala's Big Brother. How can Lalettan film go wrong ? No- Never. Such sabotages create disasters. A Disaster Response Team should be formed by Kerala Film Chamber.
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