Mohanlal - The box office charm fades ?

Mohanlal is one of the finest actor Malayalam film ever produced .He has been in the industry for the last 36 years. During his spectacular career he has seen the bouquets of success and brickbats of the failures. He has a solid fan base which cut across even language barriers. Business wise Lal still holds the prime position due to the fact the producers can get the money back with pinch of profit even if the film bombards at box office. On every failure we always lot of rumours surrounding him which indicates he has become choosy as far as the character and content of the films concerned. Mohanlal’s solo big hits took birth,  way back in 1986 through repeated hits and exactly after 30 years he is at cross roads at least in the box office demand.

Mohanlal is one of the biggest crowd puller of Mollywood. We have witnessed the mammoth crowd just an year ago at the opening day of Loham. But things have changed that too drastically. His experiments with Teulgu might have earned some fans with superb performance both in Manamantha and Janatha Garage but the frenzy which surrounds Mohanlal’s film was lacking on the opening day of both films. Apparently the mass film Janatha Garage has overall occupancy is around 50 % which is surely going to raise eyebrows among his fans and supporters. Janatha Garage with mass masala genre should have gone berserk opening in Kerala considering Mohanalal in a action thriller film after a long gap instead it had cold reception. Janatha Garage which had around 105 Screens grossed around 1.05 Cr while it had potential to gross around 2.15 Cr in the screens it released. Now the serious question emerge , does Mohanlal’s charm at box office is gradually fading out ? It looks so is the answer. This week is just a week away from a grand Mollywood Onam releases. A dubbed film has life expectancy a maximum of a week or two. Having known that a distributor would use all their arsenals to be used to grab whatever they can get. Maxlab is well established distributor and how they distributed Kabali in Kerala is historical feet. The same Maxlab restricts the screen count around 100 for Mohanlal film means they have learned the ground reality from Vismayam which is lack of enthusiasm for Mohanlal films. Even after getting good WOM Vismayam fell flat on first Monday itself while Janatha Garage with all the hype around it could not capitalize on it. Sadly Mohanlal the fanstastic actor experimenting  but the Super Star side of the great artist is surprisingly losing the steam. Or is at garage for the repair ? Oppam will have the final answer.