“Who else can play Mohanlal’s character in Naran?”, asks Ranjan Pramod

Biju Menon’s next with scriptwriter turned director Ranjan Pramod’s Rakshadhikari Baiju is gearing up for release. Rakshadhari Baiju is a mass comedy entertainer featuring Biju Menon in the title role, as an employee in the irrigation department. The movie will follow an unique pattern of story telling and will be entirely different from Ranjan Pramod’s earlier works.

Ranjan Pramod has scripted some acclaimed super hit movies like Meesa Madhavan, Manasinakkare and Achuvinte Amma. But the biggest hit in his career came in the form of Joshiy’s Naran starring Mohanlal in the lead.

Naran, released in 2005 was a huge blockbuster. Ranjan Pramod had scripted a perfect commercial entertainer revolving around the character Velayudhan and his village Mullankolli.

In a recent chat session with Onlookers Media, Ranjan Pramod talked in detail more about Naran and Mohanlal’s portrayal of the rustic and good at heart Velayudhan. Ranjan Pramod feels that there is no other actor who could play that character with such elan. Kn fact, that’s the reason why the movie has not been remade in any languages, despite being a huge commercial success.

He said, “I don’t think anyone else could play that character convincingly like how Mohanlal did. That character is not very loud but some of actions turned into such a strong and powerful one. The character has many shades like subtle humour, anger, emotions and machismo. There is no mass fight sequences in Naran where the hero fights down ten others. Even then, Naran is regarded as an action movie. “

Naran also featured Bhavana, Innocent, Deyavani, Madhu, Siddique, Jagathy Sreekumar, Maniyanpilla Raju, Maamukoya, Bheeman Raghu and Sona Nair in supporting roles. The movie was a clean commercial entertainer with equal doses of humours, actions and sentiments. Mohanlal’s daredevilry stunts without dupes in adverse climatic conditions in a flooded river was a huge talk during that time.