Pazhassi Raja, one of the most eagerly awaited films of the recent times, is based on epic proportions. The mega-budget film (made at a budget never heard of before in Malayalam Cinema), has none other than Mammootty in title role. The National award winning actor met Screen at Palani (Pazhani), where he was shooting for his new film, Chattambinaaduv How did this film happen, with you, Hariharan and M.T.Vasudevan Nair coming together after so long, a gap of time? It was twenty years back, in 1989, that we had got together to make Oru Vadakkan …, which was taken from the folklores of Kerala. The film got many awards and I got the National award for that movie , along with of course Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s film too. And after that, we were thinking of doing another film on the same lines. We thought of many stories from the folklore. Then we started thinking of a historical. But the thing was that earlier Kerala was divided into many smaller kingdoms and hence there were not many war hero
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