Dulquer Salmaan starrer film Charlie had got great critical appreciation and Dulquer Salmaan had got great appreciation from many for his superb performance as Charlie in the film directed by Martin Prakkat. Many had said that this was Dulquer Salmaan’s best performance till date and popular film maker like B Unnikrishnan even said that there were shades of vintage Mohanlal characters in the characterization of Charlie and Dulquer Salmaan had played that very well as well. But now the latest appreciation had come from the all-rounder of Malayalam cinema, Balachandra Menon. After watching Charlie, he said that his good friend Mammootty can now proud of his son Dulquer Salmaan as he had delivered such a good performance in the film Charlie.

Balachandra Menon had posted on his Facebook page that Charlie was really a great experience. He said that he knows Martin Prakkat from very long time as he once came for Vanitha Magazine for a photoshoot with Balachandra Menon years back. He said that the new generation gives great importance to each shot of the film and the camera work done by Jomon T John was just amazing to the least. He said that it was his frames that gave life to the whole film apart from the superb performance of Dulquer Salmaan. Balachandra Menon said that he want to appreciate Dulquer by giving him a pat on his back.

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Balachandra Menon also said that the character Charlie has similarities to a character played by him years ago. It was a character named Anadhan which means orphan. He played that in the film named Aarante Mulla Kochumulla. It was a character similar to Charlie who comes in a village all of a sudden or out of the blue. He made reforms in the society there with whatever he can do to make it right. He interfered in every matter in that village and made good changes to all that went wrong there. Charlie has similarities to that character

Charlie has similarities to that character says Balachandra Menon. He believes that when that character came to the modern time it was like Martin and Jomon was following Charlie with their camera.