Tamil movies aren’t always rooted and true to it’s setting. Most films hint at the district/place during the first few scenes and then return to the generic slang and character habits. At times, they even wrongly depict the people of the movie’s setting. These may be due to many reasons, as like director or actor not belonging to that location or logistic inability to shoot in the real location and so on.

But sincere attempts do happen every once in a while in Tamil cinema. It takes an eye for detail and hard work to pull it off accurately. There are many worthwhile mentions like Paruthi veeran, Kumki, Aadukalam, Kalavani and so on. Kamal Hasan always stays true to the script, slang and setting. Be it the Michael Madhana Kama Rajan, Sathi Leelavathi, Pammal K Sambantham, he has defined the location’s nuances and dialog delivery in celluloid.

Now Papanasam comes as a treat for Tirunelveli people. His dialog, hair style, dressing sense, house setup, familial connections, body language… everything is looking alike a 40-odd old Tirunelveli born-and-brought-up man. A gush of delight comes while seeing ‘yeya en kottikaara’ video for his Tirunelveli fans. For people from Tirunelveli, TN _ _ is a number, but TN 72 is an emotion! So is the Papanasam movie.

Malayalam cinema is known for its Pioneer directors, who laid the path for alternative and art cinema in the past. The directors like Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Girish Kasaravalli and many legendary screenplay writers adorned Mollywood in its golden era. But for quite some years, there was a dearth of blockbuster hits along with the lack of quality award winning films. But with the influx of youngsters and calculated risk by its iconic actors has brought the Malayalam cinema back to its form.

There weren’t huge hits for past many months in Mollywood and now Premem is rocking like never before. Distributors are excited that they saw similar foot falls in the theatre way back in 2000 for Mohanlal starring Narasimhan only. Previously, Drishyam and Banglore Days rejuvenated Mollywood some time back. Apart from the huge box office collection, it is the success of these films outside traditional Kerala market which makes this success special. Malayalam stars and stories are not getting known throughout India with these huge hits.

Drishyam is now Papanasam and is going to hit theatre July, Bangalore Days is also getting remaked in both Tamil and Telugu. Previously Siddique’s Bodyguard got its remake rights sold for the record price. Now it’s the turn of Premam to showcase the talent of Mollywood to the India and world.

If you haven’t watched Premam, do watch in theatres and you definitely wouldn’t regret going! It’s all set to become the all-time highest grosser of Mollywood.