![]() ![]() “Mani drew that effect into his expressions. “Have you noticed that when a visually challenged person speaks, there is a stress on their faces,” asks Vinayan. After a ten-minute shoot, Mani would rest his eyes for fifteen minutes. The eyes hurt and Mani suffered from watering eyes. “It is not easy squinting and contorting the eyes for that blind man’s look,” explains Vinayan. Mani played an impoverished, blind singer in VLPN. “ VLPN was an experiment on which I took a risk,” says the director of the historic film, Albuthadweep. The second hurdle came when an actress who had initially agreed to do the film returned the advance on being told that Mani would be playing the lead. After discussing the script, he enacted a few scenes for me.”īut others did not share Vinayan’s vision.įinding a producer was the first challenge. Vinayan who has an eye for spotting talent says, “Mani was only a second-level comedian then, but I had a strong conviction about Mani’s acting prowess. Until then, Mani, who had been in the industry for three years was mostly doing small roles. What made Malayalam film-maker Vinayan take a chance with late Kalabhavan Mani in the 1998 film, Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Nyanum (VLPN)? ![]()
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