What is the connection between Thalavattam and Oppam by Mohanlal-Priyadarshan team ?
Mohanlal-Priyadarshan team, undoubtedly the most successful actor-director pair in Mollywood is coming with their new project named Oppam before you this Onam. The filming of Oppam is over few days back at Trivandrum and Mohanlal playing a blind lift operator in this crime thriller. The film had a Kochi schedule and then an Ootty schedule as well.
Now a report coming in that Oppam has a connection with Thalavattam which is one of the earlier movies done by this magical pair. What may be the connection between these two films..? Priyadarshan and Mohanlal went to Ootty to shoot some scenes of Oppam and they went there to shoot a film after 22 long years. Earlier they had shot films like Thalavattam, Kilukkam, Mithunam, Minnaram etc and all of them were super successful as well. They went there 30 years before to shoot a song sequence in the film named Thalavattam and Mohanlal wanted to shoot a scene in Oppam which will make everyone remember about Thalavattam.
So, they shot a sequence at Ootty for Oppam where they shot a song sequence of Thalavattam 30 years back. They recreated the evergreen super hit song from Thalavattam starting with the lines “Ponveene..” for Oppam there at Ootty. Mohanlal and Lissy acted in that song sequence in Thalavattam and now in Oppam, child artist Meenakshi had acted with Mohanlal in the recreated sequence. Priyadarshan said that they set the same frame using the same lens to film the recreated scenes of that song, for Oppam. He said that the location has not changed a bit, but only they had changed with time. The place is as beautiful as it was before.
Priyadarshan films always filled with great locations and frames and there is nobody better than him in Mollywood when it comes to filming of songs. Oppam is scripted by Priyadarshan and produced by Antony Perumbavoor under the banner of Ashirvad Cinemas. This team last went to Ootty to shoot the film Minnaram which was also become one of the evergreen movies in Mollywood.
