Mammootty and Prithviraj was not up to the level of Dulquer in performance, says jury chairman
Dulquer Salmaan had won his first state film award of his career today and it was for his performance in the film named Charlie directed by Martin Prakkatt and written by him along with Unni R. But criticisms are also coming heavily as many people things that it was deserved by some others and not him. Names like Jayasurya, Prithviraj, Mammootty etc come up in social media and even the name of Kunchacko Boban had come up in social media for the award of best actor.
The jury Chairman had his own views regarding the awards and he explains why they chose Dulquer Salmaan over Mammootty, Prithviraj etc. He said that when the performance of them are considered, they were not really up to the performance level showed by Dulquer Salmaan in Charlie. Mohan said that Dulquer’s performance in Charlie was very different and fresh when it was compared to Mammootty’s performance in Pathemari. Mammooty’s performance as Pallickal Narayanan was good but there is not much variety or never seen before stuff in that performance. He had played the same kind of character many times in his career and it was one such character he played again as usual.
But Dulquar had given a stylized performance giving special mannerisms to the character named Charlie. It was a difficult role to convince as well. But he had done it quite well. In Prithviraj’s case as well. There was not anything great in his performance as Moideen and that is why he also eliminated from the race along with Mammootty at first stage itself. Jayasurya was the only one who competed with Dulquer Salmaan till the last round.
While selecting the best actress award, Parvathy was the unanimous choice even though they considered Deepthi Sathi as well for her performance in Neena, directed by Lal Jose. He also mentioned that even though many films had come for competing in the awards, the quality was not much there. Something have to be done to increase the quality of films as well.
