From: s910700@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Mareena Joseph)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
Subject: Mammootty vs. Mohanlal vs. ......
Summary: mammootty, mohanlal,....
Keywords: mammootty, mohanlal, etc.
Date: 2 Oct 92 06:31:07 GMT

Hi netters,

    It looks like most netters are Mohanlal 'fans'!

    Mammootty or Mohanlal better ? Why only those two ?! There are other 'hero'
actors too, like Jayaram, SureshGopi, Mukesh, Saikumar, Innocent, Asokan, etc.
    Well, to my opinion, both are good to do certain type roles, and not that
good enough to do some other roles. (PEACE PLEASE !! Listen to what I've to say
first; I'm not a 'fan' of any of those two nor any other actors).
    You can easily differentiate both of their talents comparing few of their
movies. Have anyone watched Mammootty's 'enganeundasane' and 'kuttettan'. If 
Mohanlal had done those roles it would have been better; in another sense, those
type of roles don't fit for Mammootty; he is really a zero compared to Mohanlal'
s those type of roles. Mohanlal has got an extra talent to do comedy type roles
or sensitive type roles like that he did in the movies 'chithram', 'thalavattom'
'dasaradham' etc.
    But compare Mammootty and Mohanlal in 'oru vadakkan veeragadha' and
'kadathanadan ambadi' respectively. Mohanlal is nowhere near Mammootty to do
those kind of roles; Mammootty is a giant there. 
    In the case of 'serious' type roles, both are extremely good. For example,
Mammootty's 'newdelhi', 'aavanazhi', 'oru CBI diarykurippu', 'yathra', 'nira
koottu', etc. were superb acting. Likewise Mohanlal's 'rajavinte makan', 'iru
patham noottandu', 'mukham', 'kireedam', etc. were also in the same level of
Mammootty's.
    In those films where both acted together, both did their part very well.
For eg., 'adiyozhukkukal', 'vartha', 'adimakal udamakal', 'lakshmanarekha', etc
and even in 'no. 20 Madras mail'. There is no point in distinguishing between
their characters in those films as they did the roles the director gave them.
    Mammootty is handsome whereas Mohanlal has got an innocent, bit childish
face which fascinates others like a child. It is their talent that has to be 
accepted and admired.
    To understand the great talents of both Mammootty and Mohanlal comparatively
to other state actors, just compare few of their movies which were remade in
other Indian languages. Mammootty's 'aavanazhi' was remade in telungu, one
telungu actor acting in it, and he is too far distant from Mammootty. The same
case when Mammootty's 'newdelhi' was remade in Hindi, Jeetendra  doing the role
'G.K.', you can feel the difference between an elephant and a goat; Jeetendra
is a big zero. Similarly, Lal's 'vandhanam', 'T.P.Balagopalan M.A', etc were
remade in Tamil (the remade one of 'vandhanam' is 'sambhavam', I forgot the 
other one's name), and Mohanlal is a megastar compared to the Tamil actor (I
think his name is Murali or something).
    Jayaram is very good enough to do the 'choodan' youth type roles; he fits
very well in it; neither Mammootty nor Mohanlal can do those roles that well.
    Thilakan is superb in the movies 'Perunthachan', 'kattukkuthira', 'chana
kyan', etc. SureshGopi can do the roles of 'psychos' and that of revengeful
and cunning guys, eg., 'varnnam', 'new year', etc.
    Kamalahasan is the one who can really do any type of roles indeed very
well; and also he's a good dancer. In doing comedian type roles, neither
Innocent or even Jagathi is nowhere near to Nagesh (Tamil); they has to go
through a very long distance to reach somewhat near Nagesh.
    Certain roles that Srinivasan had done, no others can do it that well;
eg., 'vadakkunokkiyanthram', 'nagarangalil chennu rapparkkam', etc. 
    Infact, Malayalam movie world is blessed with all the good actors _
Mammootty, Mohanlal, Thilakan, Srinivasan, Jayaram, SureshGopi, etc etc. We,
Malayalees, have to be proud on all of them. (In '89, Mammootty won the
'Bharath' national award, and Mohanlal missed it for just 1 vote; and so 
Rashtrapathi presented Mohanlal a 'special award' on the same day of the
national awards distribution. It was first time in India that two actors from
the same state won two big awards; and it raised Mal. movies level to the top
among all the Indian movies).

PEACE !
Be cool. Thanks.
MJ Neyyarappally (Bindu),
RMIT, Melbourne.

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