Prithiviraj Sukumaran being made ‘scapegoat’ in L2 Empuraan row, says mom; clarifies ‘Mohanlal knew each scene’ too

Mallika Sukumaran defends son Prithviraj

On Sunday, Mallika Sukumaran took to her Fb account to share her disappointment over the criticism her son has been going through, significantly the claims that Prithviraj had allegedly misled famous person Mohanlal and the movie’s producers.

“It is a mom’s ache. There isn’t any level in somebody making enjoyable of me for talking brazenly about it. Neither Mohanlal nor the producers have stated that Prithviraj cheated them. I do not suppose they may ever say that. Mohanlal is like my youthful brother. I’ve identified Lal since childhood. Mohanlal has praised my son on many events. However it is vitally unhappy that some persons are attempting to make my son a scapegoat with out the information of Lal or the producers. Director Prithviraj has not cheated anybody related to this movie or any movie. He won’t ever achieve this,” she wrote.

Mallika clarified that Prithviraj didn’t mislead anybody, and the story’s narrative and tone had been identified to your entire workforce, together with the author Murali Gopy and star Mohanlal, as they had been concerned in script revisions all through.

“When you really feel that there’s any drawback with the movie Empuraan, then everybody on this group is accountable for it. All of them learn the script collectively. All of them noticed the scenes being shot collectively, and everybody agreed. If scenes wanted to be edited throughout capturing, author Murali Gopy was all the time prepared to take action… then how can Prithviraj be solely accountable for it when all the pieces was finalized and the movie was launched?” learn part of her publish.

She emphasises that Mohanlal and the producers had been conscious of ‘each shot’ within the movie, so there isn’t any query of them being blindsided by the ultimate model as has been claimed. “I need to make it clear that there’s not a single shot in Empuraan that neither of them (Mohanlal or the producers) knew about. There may be nothing on this movie that Mohanlal doesn’t know. Neither of them would say that they had been unaware of something within the movie,” she added.

The L2 Empuraan controversy and Mohanlal’s apology

Controversy arose from the movie’s depiction of Gujarat riots, significantly scenes involving violence in opposition to Muslims by a mob of Hindu extremists. The antagonist, Baba Bajrangi (performed by Abhimanyu Singh) is proven to be a hardliner who goes from rioter to politician. Proper-wing teams known as the movie agenda-driven and slammed it for distorting information, whereas the Congress praised it.

Speculations about Mohanlal not being within the find out about sure components of the movie began after the famous person issued an unconditional apology for the scenes on Sunday. The actor acknowledged that sure facets of the movie had triggered misery to a few of his followers and guaranteed them that the workforce had determined to take away such references.

In the meantime, Empuraan’s manufacturing workforce has introduced that the movie will endure revisions in response to the controversy. In accordance with studies, 17 scenes, together with these that includes riot sequences and depictions of violence in opposition to girls, will probably be edited out.

L2 Empuraan field workplace efficiency

Regardless of the backlash, L2: Empuraan has achieved exceptional success on the field workplace. The movie, which hit theatres on March 27, grew to become the quickest Malayalam film to gross ₹100 crore worldwide, and is now inching in the direction of the ₹150 crore mark.

(With ANI inputs)