'ലാൽ സാറും ഞാനും ഒരു രൂപ പോലും പ്രതിഫലം വാങ്ങിയിട്ടില്ല'; Prithviraj & Mohanlal Salary Empuraan

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Prithviraj & Mohanlal Salary Empuraan | 'ലാൽ സാറും ഞാനും ഒരു രൂപ പോലും പ്രതിഫലം വാങ്ങിയിട്ടില്ല'; പൃഥ്വിരാജ്     #prithvirajsukumaran #mohanlal #Empuraan  ~HT.24~ED.21~

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00:00Actually, Malayalam films are based on content, they are not very much particular, they are not particular about the budget.

00:10But this film is based on budget.

00:13No, not at all. This is also based on content only. The content is expensive, that's all.

00:19In the last 4 years, if we saw in Malayalam, only 1 or 2 big budget films hit the box office.

00:32Big budget films only?

00:34Only hit in the market. Only 1 or 2, all big budget films in Malayalam.

00:40All small films have worked very well. So what do you think about this scenario?

00:46What is working in box office is not big or small budget, it is good or bad films.

00:50As far as I am concerned, there are only 2 types of films, good films and bad films.

00:53Everything else is secondary. I hope I have made a good film.

00:56This particular good film just happens to be a very expensive good film, that's all.

01:01In their combination, Prithvi's third film is a hat-trick film.

01:08They take a lot of precautions and try to hit a hat-trick.

01:12You will get ready. I have announced the 150 crores. I am expecting 300 crores worldwide.

01:30One month is also a good film. We are going to see a direct Telugu film.

01:36Yes, you can see. Emburan is also good. It is a Telugu film.

01:40I am also waiting to get a chance to do a Telugu film. Let it happen soon.

01:49Is there any chance? You came to the decision that Mythili movies are doing a film with Ram.

01:58Not yet finalized. Definitely, I will let you know.

02:02In fact, my friend has reversed the question.

02:08I take all the initiative because he is my close friend.

02:11Now you can reverse it again.

02:12The question is reversed.

02:13In Malayalam, we normally crave for the budget expenditures and unnecessarily hype the budgets.

02:23You will give value to the content and to the making values of the content.

02:28How much ever it is. If it is 10 rupees, 10 rupees is okay.

02:30But you will never crave to spend 1000 rupees on a content which does not merit that much.

02:36But this kind of film now seems to have made you somehow so desirous of bringing Malayalam film to the forefront

02:48of those films that made the worldwide pan world impact.

02:52Is there any such sense in you?

02:55Okay, I think I understand the question. I think.

02:58So, I will reply on my assumption of your question.

03:05Yes, of course. Welcome.

03:06So, firstly sir, first and foremost, we have never announced the budget of this film.

03:11Of course.

03:12We have never said anywhere that this film has cost this much money.

03:16So, my take about the whole budget scenario is when you see this film,

03:21what you think is the budget is the budget of the film.

03:25And I am going to put a challenge out there.

03:29Your guess will be more than the actual budget.

03:33And that is Malayalam cinema.

03:39You have properly understood the question and you have properly answered it.

03:45I must appreciate.

03:48No, also no, as an extension to my answer, I have to tell you that

03:52I am a firm believer that budget is not decided by the director or the producer.

03:57Budget, the content decides it.

03:59Budget is purely decided by the written word.

04:02So, when you finish writing a script, you understand that this might entail this kind of money to be made.

04:09You have two decisions to make at that point.

04:11Either you drop it.

04:13You decide this is not going to be possible.

04:15So, we are not going to make this.

04:16But if you select that script and decide to make it,

04:19then you have to go all out and do it justice.

04:22So, I have to tell you that Mohanlal sir and I,

04:25the moment we finished the first narration of the script,

04:28both of us were very aware that something like this is unheard of in Malayalam,

04:32in terms of the scale, the canvas and everything.

04:35And I was half expecting sir to tell me,

04:39son, you have dreamt too big this time.

04:42So, let us think of something else.

04:44But it is only because of his confidence.

04:46He is the one who told me, whatever you want, let's do this.

04:49It's only because of his confidence, this film became possible.

04:52And every single penny that could be spent on making the film,

04:56has been spent on making the film.

04:58Mohanlal sir and myself, we have not taken a single rupee from this film.

05:03Fantastic.

05:04This is the width of comprehension you could draw from my question.

05:08You have answered it for almost three minutes.

05:11Like my trailer, yeah.

05:12Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.

05:14Thank you, thank you.

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