THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Malayalam actor-cum-script writer Sreenivasan hasrefuted media reports that his latest film ‘Padmasree Bharat Dr Saroj Kumar’shows superstar Mohanlal in poor light.
Sreenivasan plays the lead role in the film. Since the film's release a weekback, he has time and again said that it told a tale in simple humour.
“This film is not at all a second part or a sequel of the block buster 'UdayanannuTharam' that strarred Mohanlal. In the present film, there is no character ofUdayabhanu (essayed by Mohanlal in 'Udayanannu Tharam') and his wife,” he toldreporters.
The film is different from 'Udayanannu Tharam' as the story line is differentbecause Udayabhanu's story ended in the first film itself, Sreenivasan toldreporters.
The latest film directed by debutant Sajin Raghavan takes a dig at the neverending feuds between the numerous film-based organisations in the Malayalamfilm industry.
Antony Perumbavoor, Mohanlal's business associate in all film-relatedbusiness ventures, came out against ‘Udayanannu Tharam’ and called up thefilm's cinematographer S. Kumar.
S. Kumar told reporters that he got a call from Antony and he was not happywith the manner in which the film allegedly took on Mohanlal.
“He told me that at least I should have not allowed these veiled barbsagainst Mohanlal. I asked him why he is saying all this to me because I am onlya cameraman,” Antony said.
“I told him to speak to the producer or director or others who are behindthe film,” said Kumar.
Director Major Ravi, whose films 'Keerthi Chakra' and 'Kurukshetra' thatstarred Mohanlal in a character wearing army uniform, termed the events as sad.
“These two people have been in films and they act together. Doing like thisis not good,” he said.
