Mohanlal’s Vadakkumnathan has taken a good opening all over Kerala. The family and lady audience simply love the madcap professor Pisharody.

Everyone in the trade had written off Vadakkumnathan before release and had said that the film is too arty with no commercial elements and will go against Mohanlal’s image.

Anyway, now it’s a different story as the very same people are praising the film to the skies as collections are good. Suddenly Mohanlal has emerged as the darling of Kerala’s “born again” family audience who thronged the theatres this summer.

Mohanlal has wooed and won over the family audiences in 2006 with films like Thanmatra and Rasathantram and now Vadakkumnathan. Sathyan’s Rasathantram has already grossed nearly Rs 10 Crore from releasing stations, a new box-office record.

CNN-IBN the prestigious English Channel had carried a 30-minute programme “Being Mohanlal” last Friday on prime time in which the actor was referred to as “the pan-Indian hero who has a phenomenal reach among Malayalee family audience”. It was Mohanlal best-ever interview in English.

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