Actor Surya about Mohanlal.

"Dasharatham Climax Sequence."

Tamil actor Surya once told in a talk show that during his early days as an actor, his biggest challenge was not knowing how to use his hands in each scenes, when to let them free and when to put them in pockets. That's when he watched closely how Mohanlal acted in his movies and found that Mohanlal's hands, arms and his entire body flow like music. He then added - "Mohanlal Sir's fingers and even finger nails can act."

In Dasharatham's climax as Mohanlal rests his hand on Sukumari's shoulder and tells her- "ആനി മോനെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നപോലെ മാഗ്ഗിയ്ക്കു എന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കാമോ?", watch his fingers and you would know what Surya is talking about. Mohanlal's exceptionally brilliant acting quite ably supported by the ever versatile Sukumari, a hauntingly beautiful background score yet again by the great Johnson Master and a heart-wrenching ending by Lohithadas who told a story that was much ahead of its times. All these make sure that most of us gladly revisit Dasharatham's climax over and again even as we are entirely aware that it would end us up only in tears.