Srinivasan’s recent criticism of Mohanlal was a big controversy. Srinivasan said that he was not on good terms with Lal and that he had exposed his hypocrisy many times and that he would write everything before he died. But director Priyadarshan responded that he did not know why he said that.
Priyan’s response was in an interview given to trade analyst Sridhar Pillak as part of the promotion of the new film Corona Papers. There is a dialogue in my new film Corona Papers. To forget is human and to forgive is divine. I think humans should do it. I don’t know what is causing this. His illness may be telling something. I don’t know. Sathyan Anthikkad is also confused regarding this. We have talked regarding this. We don’t know what Srini is saying. It seems very strange.- said Priyadarshan.
Priyadarshan says that Mohanlal has never responded to this and that is the good part regarding it. He must have been thinking regarding what to say. Srinivasan must have felt that way. That’s why he must have thought that he said that. Mohanlal knows Srinivasan.- Priyadarshan added.
Srinivasan’s controversial comment was in an interview given to Indian Express. Padma Shri Dr. Srinivasan also said that the movie Saroj Kumar was written on the experience of director Rajeev Nath. Srinivasan had said that Mohanlal kissed him during the channel show because he is a complete actor and if the movie Dr Saroj Kumar was not a spoof of Mohanlal in a way and if it affected his relationship with him, Srinivasan said that our relationship was not that good. Also, immortal actor Premnaseer wanted to direct a film with Mohanlal as the hero, but Lal was not interested in it.
My #Priyadarsan aka @priyadarshandir interview, where he opens up on :
*Remaking #8Thotakkal into Malayalam as #CoronaPapers.
*On #Sreenivasan‘s outburst once morest #Mohanlal!
* “God willing” he will do his ???? th film as director with #Mohanlal!
*Why he will not do comedies in… pic.twitter.com/YkSCmytJrs
— Sreedhar Pillai (@sri50) April 7, 2023