Malayalam famous person Mammootty is again after a short break he took as a consequence of an unspecified sickness for which he was present process remedy. Again in kind, the 74-year-old actor is now selling his upcoming movie Kalamkaval, which can be launched in theatres on December 5. In a promotional video shared by his manufacturing home, Mammootty Kampany, the actor spoke about how transitioning to senior roles gave him extra leeway as an actor.
Mammootty on transitioning to senior roles
Mammootty has typically juggled roles in his profession, taking part in each romantic leads and motion heroes, in addition to characters which are fully totally different. Nonetheless, the actor says that now transitioning fully to senior roles has given him extra selections. Giving the instance of taking part in the villainous Chathan in Bramayugam (2024), Mammootty mentioned that there’s no enjoyable in taking part in the standard business hero anymore.
“If I ask for a task the place I need to play a romantic curiosity, it will likely be given. However there’s no enjoyable in that. After a time frame, while you graduate to senior roles, you get much more selection, extra variations. A hero can have limitations; it has modified a bit now. However the villain has none. On this movie, I play a personality whom I received’t name a villain, however he’s not a very good soul,” he mentioned, talking about taking part in the lead in Kalamkaval.
When requested the place he finds the braveness to interrupt the star picture and play such roles, he replied, “We do issues like this not out of braveness, however out of need. I don’t need to ignore the actor in me; he ought to be correctly fed. I need to fulfill the actor in me above all else. I don’t deny that it made me a star, however I solely acquired there due to this. I’ve no objection to being known as a star, however being an actor is my choice.”
Kalamkaval is just not Cyanide Mohan’s story
When the movie was introduced and the promotional materials was launched, many believed that Kalamkaval was in regards to the dreaded serial killer Cyanide Mohan. The hearsay of the killer within the movie having 21 victims solely fuelled the very fact. Nonetheless, Mammootty denied that his movie had something to do with the heinous case from the early 2000s.
“This character is related to many individuals; sure, there are 21 ladies he interacts with within the movie. We’d not present all of them, however they’re there. This movie, although, has nothing to do with Cyanide Mohan’s case,” mentioned Mammootty, including, “Sure, the killer makes use of cyanide within the movie. However it is just a narrative of somebody like him. We now have been impressed by actual occasions, but it surely’s not his story.”
Kalamkaval is directed by Jithin Ok Jose, who additionally co-wrote the screenplay with Jishnu Sreekumar. It stars Mammootty and Vinayakan within the lead roles, together with Gibin Gopinath, Gayatri Arun and Rajisha Vijayan.