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Sreenivasan and Mohanlal: controversy
Malayalam actor and script writer Sreenivasan has refuted media reports that his latest film shows superstar Mohanlal in poor light.
Sreenivasan plays the lead role in Padmasree Bharath Dr Saroj Kumar released a week back. He has said several times that it told a tale in simple humour.
“This film is not at all a second part or a sequel of the block buster Udayanannu Tharam that had Mohanlal in  the lead role. In the present film, there is no character of Udayabhanu and his wife,” he told reporters.
In Udayanannu Tharam Mohanlal essayed the role of Udayabhanu.
The new film is different from Udayanannu Tharam as the story line is different because Udayabhanu’s story ended in the first film itself, Sreenivasan said.
The latest film directed by debutant Sajin Raghavan takes a dig at the never-ending feuds between the numerous film-based organisations in the Malayalam film industry.
Antony Perumbavoor, Mohanlal’s business associate in all film-related business ventures, came out against Padmasree Bharath Dr Saroj Kumar and called up the film’s cinematographer S Kumar.
Kumar told reporters Antony told him he was not happy with the manner in which the film allegedly took on Mohanlal.
“He told me that at least I should have not allowed these veiled barbs against Mohanlal. I asked him why he was complaining to me because I am only a cameraman,” Antony said.
“I told him to speak to the producer or director or others who are behind the film,” said Kumar.
Director Major Ravi, whose films Keerthi Chakra and Kurukshetra that had Mohanlal in a character wearing army uniform, termed the events sad.
“These two people have been in films and they act together. Doing like this is not good,” he said.