To millennium and present

The second half of 90,s started with a movie which can be termed cult classic, Spadikam by director Bhadran . His character Aadu Thoma or Thomas chacko was a grant fiesta for his fans and won critical acclaim too . The scenario slowly started changing during this period. Film makers now came up with some supernatural roles and tried to cash in on the superstardom . So came a lean phase with not much good movies which he used to do, its not on the quality of acting but on the movies only. He won best actor award for Kaalapani during this period, It was also selected by the Government of India as official entry for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . Lal also did some movies like Aaram Thampuran, Ustaad, Narasimham etc which are just boilerplate roles of earlier classics only .

During this time he did Maniratnam's Iruvar in which he portrayed the real life of MGR . He produced and acted in Indo - French project Vaanaprastham which bags him another National award for best actor and the best film . The film was selected for the competitive section at the Cannes film festival . In 2002 he did a bollywood movie Company directed by Ram gopal varma which was a commercial hit and won critical applause . He got IIFA award for best supporting actor for this movie .Then came a string of movies with flaccid scripts which got nothing to deliver in terms of his acting caliber .

Then came Thanmatra directed by Blessy which won him the Kerala state award for best actor for portraying a person affected by Alzheimer's disease . From then onwards he started giving much importance to scripts and his choice of good scripts slowly started paying with procession of some good movies keeping balance with his fans choice and also critics . He won the 2007 Kerala state award for Best Actor for his performance as Valiakathu Moosa in the movie Paradesi. Mohanlal completed 30 years in the film industry on 8 September 2008.He did Keerthichakra, an army movie by Major Ravi which shows the pride of being a soldier and serving nation .

In 2008 came Amma produced multi starrer Twenty 20 in which Mohanlal starred along with all the prominent actors of Malayalam film industry . On the release of the movie in November 08, the movie started with huge initial collection and good reviews and broke all collection records. During this period he also did Madambi and Kurukshetra, both with box office success. He portrayed Albert Samson, the master builder in the movie Aakasha Gopuram with ease and perfection.

The first release of 2009 Red Chillies came out on Valentine’s Day and is turning out to be the first super hit of the year . Then came the most awaited movie of the year Saagar Alias Jacky . Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded sets some records in Kerala Box office.The main one is it record inital collection which breaks the record of 20-20.Another one is Saj reloaded has 1000 house full shows in the first 3 days. Mohanlal’s distribution concern Maxlabs has taken a whopping distributors share of Rs 1.33 crore within four days of Sagar alias Jacky release and it is the most stylish role ever played by him . After amassing a distributor's share of 3.35 crs from its A class centre run, Jacky continued good business in smaller centres too . The movie has already covered its production costs and also made huge amounts from various rights sold .

After the stylish films like Red Chillies and Saagar Alias Jackie , the next film was Bhagawan . It hold the record of completing the entire shoot in just 17 hours with using 9 camera unites simultaneously . But the film didn't do well with masses and did nothing good for Mohanlal as an actor . The theme of the movie is about some terrorists trying to kidnap the home minister who was admitted in a hospital and lal played the role of a doctor .

The latest release , Brahmaram directed by Blessy brought back the Classic days of Malayalam movies . Bhoomika stars along with Lal and its the first road movie in Malayalam . The role and story was kept under suspense by the production team . Blessy says "No one other than Mohanlal in indian film industry can do ther role in Bhramaram". That itself tells the level of performance by Mohanlal and all says its one of the best ever performance by him . Bhramaram has taken a wonderful opening with a first week distributor's share of Rs 1.10 crores. The movie is becoming a huge hit financially and is already being talked about as the return of good malayalam cinema by noted critics who have praised Mohanlal for his magical acting that he is well known for, in the movie.

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