It was puposly done the kerala jury Mr. Rajeevkumar and his team actually now we undrestood this is year jury was played against mammotty. so in future we request to kerala Govt. to choose to joury good aware peoploe otherwise state ward will be like a commedy. Mr. Rajeev Kumar u please learn about cinema go to Poona institute or go to mammotty's home he will learn you.
1. He has been a clean role model for the people of Kerala unlike most others in the malayalam film industry. I think in an industry where personal control over matters has been lacking badly, Mammotty is a shining relief. 2. To the gentleman who called him pot-bellied, Mammotty at 54 has much less of a pot-belly than Big-B. Remember movies like Lal-Badshah? 3. I do think, Pritviraj did a good job and actually deserved the award. Its sad that the committee came out with a statement as it did. All it has done is to reduce the value of the award. 4. And finally to the person who wrote this article, give us a break, his latest movie was made much before the award committee was even constituted.
RE:idiotic face
by Vimi Mohandas on Feb 24, 2007 07:44 PM
I agree with you. this photo is absoutely mamootty at his idiotic best. couldnt you guys (rediff) find a better photo. Please remove this.
Dear Shobha, no offence meant! (I expect a reply from you)
Shobha Warrier,who usually writes decent articles has come up with an article filled with speculation, guess work and use of vivid imagination. She wonders why would Mammotty, the winner of 3 National Awards and 7 State Awards act in silly and commercial films? The answer, Shobha, is that he is an actor. He never said that he will act only in Award Winning artistic movies. As an actor you have to act in all types of roles, all way from Mathilukal to Mayavi. The fact that he won so many awards should not be held against him and should not restrict him to the kind of movies he does. Going by your logic, Yesudas should not be singing songs like Padakali, and Chitra should not be singing Penne Penne from Meesa Madhavan. We are not big fans of his movies like Rajamanikyam or Thuruppugulan and we probably would make fun of his dancing abilities, but we would not suggest what he should do. Mammotty%u2019s latest movie, Mayavi is a success and so Shobha concludes that he has given up on meaningful cinema. Actually we would like to know what %u201Cmeaningful cinema%u201D is, but let us take a big assumption here and make a statement that she probably means non-Mayavi type movies. Actually Shobha could have looked at the line up of Mammotty%u2019s movies for 2007 and she would have seen Ore Kadal by Shyama Prasad and Pazhassi Raja to be directed by Hariharan and written by M.T.Vasudevan Nair. But then if you have already made a judgement what can a few facts do to alter that?
Then comes the killer statement.
"The fact that he lost to Prithviraj for Best Actor may have contributed to this decision. Many were shocked when an %u2018enlightened%u2019 jury of the Kerala State film awards committee chose to give the award to Prithviraj for Vaasthavam while ignoring Mammootty%u2019s roles in Karutha Pakshikal, Kaiyoppu and Palunku."
The 2006 State Awards were declared last week and so within the past five days did Mammotty inform Shobha Warrier that he is giving up %u201Cmeaningful%u201D cinema? Also if you look at the 2006 State Awards, it is not that Mammotty %u201Clost%u201D to Prithviraj. As we have discussed, Mammotty, Murali and Suresh Gopi were not considered for the awards because some aliens beamed plasma rays into the brains of the jury. So Prithviraj was essentially competing against Sreenivasan, not Mammotty.
We hope the editors of Rediff will stop Ms. Warrier from publishing fiction in the name of journalism.
RE:Exclusively for Shobha Warrier....(Vishnu here)
by jibi jacob on Feb 23, 2007 05:31 PM
mammotty stolen pazhashi raja,mcbath from suresh gopi.pathetic.
Dear Shobha, no offence meant! (I expect a reply from you)
Shobha Warrier,who usually writes decent articles has come up with an article filled with speculation, guess work and use of vivid imagination. She wonders why would Mammotty, the winner of 3 National Awards and 7 State Awards act in silly and commercial films?
The answer, Shobha, is that he is an actor. He never said that he will act only in Award Winning artistic movies. As an actor you have to act in all types of roles, all way from Mathilukal to Mayavi. The fact that he won so many awards should not be held against him and should not restrict him to the kind of movies he does. Going by your logic, Yesudas should not be singing songs like "Padakali", and Chitra should not be singing "Penne Penne" from Meesa Madhavan. We are not big fans of his movies like Rajamanikyam or Thuruppugulan and we probably would make fun of his dancing abilities, but we would not suggest what he should do. His latest movie, Mayavi is a success and so Shobha concludes that he has given up on meaningful cinema. Actually we would like to know what "meaningful cinema" is, but let us take a big assumption here and make a statement that she probably means non-Mayavi type movies. Actually Shobha could have looked at the line up of Mammotty's movies for 2007 and she would have seen Ore Kadal by Shyama Prasad and Pazhassi Raja to be directed by Hariharan and written by M.T.Vasudevan Nair. But then if you have already made a judgement what can a few facts do to alter that?
Then comes the killer statement.
"The fact that he lost to Prithviraj for Best Actor may have contributed to this decision. Many were shocked when an 'enlightened' jury of the Kerala State film awards committee chose to give the award to Prithviraj for Vaasthavam while ignoring Mammootty's roles in Karutha Pakshikal, Kaiyoppu and Palunku."
The 2006 State Awards were declared last week and so within the past five days did Mammotty inform Shobha Warrier that he is giving up "meaningful" cinema? Also if you look at the 2006 State Awards, it is not that Mammotty "lost" to Prithviraj. As we have discussed, Mammotty, Murali and Suresh Gopi were not considered for the awards because some aliens beamed plasma rays into the brains of the jury. So Prithviraj was essentially competing against Sreenivasan, not Mammotty.
We hope the editors of Rediff will stop Ms. Warrier from publishing fiction in the name of journalism.
What the writer has written about mammootty's commercial switch over is wrong completely. He is a master in taking the right mix of films. It is his appeal as a mass hero that allows Good film makers to cast him in non commercial films. The 2 recent films, which are not too commercial with Mammootty in the lead, Palunku and Kaiyoppu has done reasonably well to make the producers happy. Remember Mammootty acted without taking a single penny for Kaiyoppu. So this shows his unmatched love for Parallel cinema. This year also he has good share of meaningful cinema in the form of Pazhassi Raja and Ore Kadal. So dear author, have your basics right before degrading some one of Mammootty's calibre.
RE:Mammootty's Commercial ventures
by jibi jacob on Feb 24, 2007 02:59 PM
palunku's producer happy,when he lost money.and he has stolen pazhshi raja from suresh gopi,pathetic.poor suresh .
RE:RE:Mammootty's Commercial ventures
by sumej c on Mar 01, 2007 12:24 PM
Palunku was a hit Mr./Ms. Jibi Moron. And Pazhashi Raja stolen from Suresh Gopi?? Where are you living man? Everyone knows that how the movie "Pazhashi Raja" was decided to make. The dream team of Mammootty/MT.Vasudevan Nair/Hariharan decided to come up with a "Vadakkan Pattu" film with the name "Payyamvellil Chantu"(same like Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha). Later MT Vasudevan Nair said that he had already written a Vadakkan Pattu film in Vadakkan Veeragatha so he wanted to write something different, something more powerful, something which has got more influence in people of Kerala and that's how the movie "Pazhashi Raja" happened. The script is almost completed and it will be going on to the floor within a few months. You understand, Moron?
today's mallu movies are tatally out of order. We have non-actors like prithviraj,dileep,jayoosuriya etc ruling the roost. Even mamootty and mohanlal have become totally masala type heroes.
can u compare this to great 80s when mallu movies were best in country? dashardadham,chitram, Oru CBI Dairy Kurippu, thaalavattam,kireedam, oru vadakkana veerkatha,bharataham etc etc. then we had some great comedies in early 90s starring jayaram,mukesh,jagadeesh etc(not great but certainly good). can any of the movies of recent years match to these movies?
so mallu friends, stop this nonsense about how great mallu movies are as compared to north movies and so on. accept the fact that they too have succumbed to the pressures of commercialism.
Sobha madam proudly declares that all the three Mammmootty offbeat movies have flopped @ the box office. however, a film publication in Malayalam, Vellinakshathram, in its latest (today's) issue gives Palunku collection in trivandrum as Rs 34.23 Lakh for 49 days. at the same time, the over-hyped Mohan Lal's Baba Kalyani ("silly, commercial" movie) got Rs 43.65 Lakh from tvm for 62 days! even being a commercial movie could make a difference of Rs 9.4 Lakh. (there's a difference of 13 days too). in that case, could we say that Baba Kalyani too is a flop?!
RE:Palunku collection
by jibi jacob on Feb 24, 2007 02:55 PM
pinne .baba kalyani set great imnitial ant it is recorded grt.palunku is a flop .baba kalyani is hit. mammoty magazine karku kasu doduthatha.media support he got.
