Mohanlal's performance as 'Kunjikkuttan' won both national and international acclaim. Shaji N Karun speaks about the relative ease in coaxing an award winning performance:
"I can only express one word if I have to describe Mohanlal: Wonder. I look at him with the awe when he transforms himself from a person to an artiste in front of the camera. I don't know how he transforms himself. Its inexplicable. I've seen him from behind the camera when I was a cinematographer. In Hariharan's 'Panchagni', for instance, I had asked him how such a transformation was possible. He had no answer to it."
"The European cameraman who shot 'Vanaprastham' had a similar experience. There was a scene in Vanaprastham where 'Kunjikkuttan' goes to meet his guru who is unwell. It was a long, slow sequence of around 200 ft. And the cameramen tracked him from head to foot. By the time the camera reached the foot, the cinematographer couldn't see anything--his eyes had welled up watching Mohanlal."
"I can only express one word if I have to describe Mohanlal: Wonder. I look at him with the awe when he transforms himself from a person to an artiste in front of the camera. I don't know how he transforms himself. Its inexplicable. I've seen him from behind the camera when I was a cinematographer. In Hariharan's 'Panchagni', for instance, I had asked him how such a transformation was possible. He had no answer to it."
"The European cameraman who shot 'Vanaprastham' had a similar experience. There was a scene in Vanaprastham where 'Kunjikkuttan' goes to meet his guru who is unwell. It was a long, slow sequence of around 200 ft. And the cameramen tracked him from head to foot. By the time the camera reached the foot, the cinematographer couldn't see anything--his eyes had welled up watching Mohanlal."
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