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