Bala, Your over-generalised comments- especially those betraying a deep resentment of Tamils- can be applied to Hindi as well. There have been countless Tamil movies remade into hindi which have been altered. But that is all done to make it commercially viable in that market. The problem is Malayalam movies sorely lacks any kind of glamour- so much so that even Tamil movies like Chandramukhi which deviate from your original become mega-hits in Kerala itself. CM collected enough money in Kerala to cover production costs of the film. How do you explain that? And Mammooty and Jayaram apart from so many heroines (much like stars of yesteryears like PremNazir to Shobana) get to project another aspect of their talent to a much larger audience in Tamil films. Can explain logically without biased comments as to why Mallu's patronise Tamil films? Why is their appetite not satiated with Malayalam movies alone? So instead of brow-beating that Malayalam movies are superior please accept that tamil films offer something that is lacking in Malayalam and that Tamil audience is generally more pro-south indian when it comes to accepting talent. While Malayalam has a smaller share it does it's bit in supporting the tamil industry with some talent and logically there is room for both industries in the south. The best of Mallu stories have to be remade in Tamil, the best of talent has to work in Tamil because the best of Malayalam talent deserves a larger audience.
