Cinema is more than an art form but also a medium that directly influences the society. There is no communist art and no lower and upper caste groups in art. Attempts have always been made to reduce the sublime art to this level. It is strange that there were two categories of cinema with artistic merit and commercial cinema. Today, directors are trying to make a commercial film with artistic value.
Many commercial films with good artistic value have been released in Malayalam. Sometimes floor movies too. When the film is a knock-off venture, substandard films are released like this. Director and actor Joy Mathew and Dr. Biju are two talents who are advocates of good films. Excellence and skill have been revealed in their films. Both of them have taken cinema seriously. In Dr. Biju’s judging, the movie Shutter directed by Joy Mathew was once considered for the award. There are many people who praised Shutter including critics. However, the state award committee did not see much merit in Joey Mathew’s shutter. So no award was given.
Feeling that he was insulted, Joy Mathew called Dr. Biju on the phone and said whatever he felt like. Humiliated, Dr. Biju filed a case alleging that he was insulted by caste names. People close to us say that Joy Mathew, who is a rebel even in film and in life, is a green artist who shouts anything and everything.
While the enmity and the case between them continued, another opportunity fell to lock horns. What angered Dr Biju was Mohanlal’s dialogue insulting tribals in his new film Peruchazhi. Dr. Biju demanded through Facebook that the dialogue “Attappadis who came to Lulumal” was born out of Mohanlal’s attitude and that Lal should apologize for insulting the tribals.
With this, arguments for and against Lal arrived. Everyone is saying with one voice that Mohanlal is not speaking that dialogue in the movie. Dr. They demanded that Biju should watch the movie first and then give his opinion and that Dr. Biju should apologize for insulting Mohanlal.
If not, many ask why the actor, who is supposed to obey the scriptwriter and dialogue writer, should be crucified like this. Some say that the place names Attapatti and Kothazham are expressions used all over Kerala as a place where no development is allowed and there is nothing insulting to the tribals there.
Joy Mathew asks if those who are controversial about the incident by saying that Lulumal is a symbol of modernity and money, Attappadi is a symbol of the oppressed and the underclass, do they really have tribal love. Joy Mathew, who came to the Samara Panthal and declared solidarity with the tribals, says that the criticism of Dr. Biju Mohanlal, who never once went to the Samara Panthal, where they are protesting by building a hut in front of the Secretariat, is due to some kind of mental illness.
From Nell to the movie Bamboo Boys, tribals are portrayed badly. However, Joy Mathew advises Biju that he should see an apothecary who studied medicine to understand the motive behind the attack on Mohan Lal.
Dr. Biju sarcastically asks that Joy Mathew himself should not be taught tribal love and is the same Joy Mathew who called him on the phone in the middle of the night and called him a caste name because he did not get the award.
Lal’s fans argue that Lal has played an adivasi lover and an adivasi hero in the film Photographer and in the film Uoortum Naam Nadake. Dr. Biju’s allegation that the character of Jagannathan in Aram Tampuran only looks back when he is called Tampuran is childish and some sarcastically ask Biju whether he should look back when the character in Aram Tampuran is called Aduthome. Dr. In the film Biju’s Way to Home, when another character asks the Malayalee terrorist character where his home is, he says Malappuram to make all the locals think they are terrorists.
Meanwhile, many people have come in support of Biju’s Facebook post. Many people came forward with wishes for Biju, who asked questions without bowing before the superstars.
Mohanlal is keeping silent without responding to the controversy in his name. Everyone thinks that maybe Lal will respond in the next blog.
