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I lost 50 lakhs due to Mammooka flight delay; After that, Mammooka had a fight with me: Dinesh Panicker
Dinesh Panicker produced the film Stalin Sivadas with Mammootty in the lead role. Khushbu played the female lead in the 1999 film. Dinesh Panicker talks about the losses this film has caused him.
Dinesh said it was a film he had to do as he didn’t like the script and Mammootty decided to do it under pressure.
But Dinesh said that he did not think the film would fail and the main reason for failure was the release of Suresh Gopi’s film in the meantime. He added that he lost Rs 50 lakh. He said these things through his YouTube channel about him.
“I really wanted to make a movie with Mammooka. So I told him a story. He liked the story. When all the Mammooka stuff came together, I moved on to the rest.
Damodaran Mash is writing the script. So it was decided to start the film in 1998 and release it in 1999. But when I read the script written by Damodaran Mash, I felt it had achieved my expectation.
It had more scenes. So the film will be in theaters for three hours. She said we can fix everything. By then it had been two or three months. However, there was no fix as expected. I met Mammooka and told him I’m not doing this film. By then I had given an advance of five lakh rupees to Mammooka.
He asked me what was wrong. I told him I’m not interested in doing this project. Mammooka was shocked. Because there were just two more months to go. I told him I didn’t like the script when I asked him to tell me.
Mamooka got really mad when he heard that. He said it can be done. Mammooka seemed to have had a fight with me afterwards. She decided to take the next flight to Chennai. I thought not. He was taken to the airport.
Mammooka said to think again. When I heard that talk about Mammooka, I was lost in it. I decided to make the movie no matter how bad it was. The film was shot in 25 days. First, it was decided to call it Red Flag. Then I thought I don’t want the touch of the party. Stalin called Shivdas.
Suresh Gopi’s Patra was released on the third day of the film which had a good collection. I missed it a lot. My image of Mammooka in the middle of it didn’t rise above it. So the newspaper trampled us. On the third day we went down. It was to end with no collection.
That movie did me no small loss. 50 lakh is a loss of Rs. “I had joked somewhere that Mammooka’s flight was delayed, so my loss was Rs 50 lakh,” said Dinesh Panicker.
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