A Creative Genius

A Creative genius, the hallmark of Mohanlal's acting is the spontaneity of his performance . He doesn't make any preparation for his roles . He changes into the character he plays and lives in that for the duration between Action and cut . For him good acting just happens from within unknowingly. For that, he is a versatile genius who can render any role under the sun with conviction. The roles he delivered, his natural easy manner of act and of looks of innocent chubby ones did it to like to the public and it came to be considered as just another member in almost every households in Kerala. This was reflected in his is widely popular figure and called affectionately as Lal, that later became Lalettan .


Mohanlal do movies which he feels challenging and is a director's actor. He is very much natural and has extempore ability to perform the core of characters with gratification and ease which make him stand on a different league of performer . He deliver more than what the director want from him and he strongly believes in the director when he commits a film . He mostly favour working in Malayalam movie world than going to other languages . He got a good circle of friends in Malayalam film industry that is part of his life from early school days and does movies for friends regardless the story and monetary benefits . Director Priyadarshan, Suresh Kumar, S. Kumar, M .G. Sreekumar etc are some among many of that group .


He was hesitant to do other language movies initially. He reasoned that being too much masala oriented and uncomfortable delineating other languages with aplomb. Later years he resorted and started doing movies, when directors like Maniratnam and Ram Gopal Varma came up with scripts like Iruvar and Company which make him infatuate and made him commit.

His desire to do classy elegant movies made him produce Vaanaprastham, Kaalapani, Bharatham etc which won him lots accolades and gave us visual delights . His commitment to his roles is seen in his involvement during the making of the film. It is a well-known fact that he learnt Bharatnatyam for his role in Kamaladalam and Kathakali for his role in Vaanaprastham. He studied classical dance from the prominent dancer Nattuvam Paramasivam and Kathakali from Kalamandalam Gopi .On screen Lal made both of them watch with awe that he did both forms of art with sheer perfection. Though, typical of this simple and humble human, he often downplays his efforts pointing that it is nothing in comparison to what the masters of the art have put in during years of practice.

In his long acting career, Lal was unfortunate to witness some awful incidents too. The most important among them was the death of Actor Alumoodan .During the shoot of film Adwaitham he collapsed to lal's lap and died. This incident created a deep impact on his attitude towards life. It explains his outlook to life and the reason he has now set his priorities the way he has.

After 30 years long span of acting career he is still young and fresh and ready for challenges. He harmonizes himself to any changing plots and make all around him feel delighted. Lal is still going stronger in terms of box office success and his popularity always on the rise among malayalees .Mohanlal is the Most Popular Keralite by a survey conducted by CNN IBN related to the Silver Jubilee of Kerala formation.

In recent years, he has concentrated on working on one film at a time to devote more to quality. In his own words, he's more concerned about whether the script is a good one or not rather than whether the movie will be a big hit or not.

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