#16 The greatest actor on planet earth was born today and its so happened that I share my birthday with him. I am not qualified enough to draw a picture out of his stupendous career. Nevertheless, to the people who are yet to experience his performances, I thought may be I can take them to some of his greatest characters. I plan to give a brief of 21 such performances. This post is going to take some time to complete as I want to watch these movies once again and write. Anyway here goes the first one.
- Lover: Numerous films come to my mind now. But for the sake of a decision, I would choose ‘Mathews’ in the movie ‘Pranayam’. Well he is not young in the film contrary to the popular notion of relating romance to youth and the film does not revolve around Mathews. However, this character epitomizes what a lover should be and I fell for one of the dialogue by Mathews. He says “Why I should I worry if there is no love greater than mine”. In real life there is no unconditional love though this dialogue embodies the same. I absolutely love this performance. Now if you want to see a lover role by a younger Mohanlal, then there is nothing better than ‘Solomon’ in Namukku Parkkan Munthirithoppukal.
- Convict: There is no doubt here. It is Sadayam. The best of him that I like. This is a movie of a convict who is about to be hanged and it will churn and evoke questions on truth and justice. I saw this movie much later than many other classical movies of Mohanlal. Maybe it was because I had to grow up that much enough to appreciate it. I have nothing more to say. This is at the top of chart in a ranking of Mohanlal’s performances.
- Fraud: