Maniyanpilla Raju’s 10th production venture named Pavada will hit the screens on this coming Friday and it has Young Super Star Prithviraj in the lead. He earlier produced the film named Ananthabhdram as well with Prithviraj in the lead role and it was released in the year 2005. Maniyanpilla Raju had produced 10 films including Pavada till now and 5 of them with the great friend Mohanlal in the lead. All of them had made money at box office as well. He began his production with a Mohanlal film named Hello my dear wrong Number in which he was a co-producer.
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Later he independently produced the Mohanlal film Vellanakalude Nadu which was a super success directed by Priyadarshan. Later he had produced super successful Mohanlal films like Aey Auto by Venu Nagavally, Chotta Mumbai by Anwar Rasheed etc. He also financed films like Anashwaram with Mammootty in the lead, Kannezhuthi Pottum Thottu with Manju warrier etc as well. He said that he may have done his 10th film with Mohanlal as well. But he chose Prithviraj because of this personal attachment with him and also for the reason that Prithviraj is like Mohanlal.
Maniyanpilla Raju says that Prithviraj is very good human being just like Mohanlal. Like Mohanlal he never flatters anyone just to be a part of cinema industry. If he does not like something he will say it openly and it is because he got a great personality. Maniyanpilla Raju said that Prithviraj’s mother Mallika Sukumaran was his classmate and his father Sukumaran was also one of his great friends. He even carried Prithviraj in his arms when he was a kid and that personal attachment was there with him as well. That is why he want to make his 10th film with Prithviraj in the lead.
Maniyanpilla Raju said that the growth of Prithvi Raj as an actor and a star after the film Celluloid was phenomenal and he wants to do good films rather than doing some films without looking at its merit. That is why his films are continuously becoming box office successes.
