Empuraan

This Thursday will be a treat for OTT audiences as two exciting titles, L2: Empuraan and Veera Dheera Sooran, are set to be available for streaming. Empuraan, headlined by Mohanlal, is the biggest hit ever in Malayalam cinema with over Rs. 260 crores gross. The political action thriller directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran received mixed reviews, but the pre-release hype helped it succeed at the box office.

Starting April 24, Empuraan will be available to stream on Hotstar in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada languages. Since the film landed in controversy during its theatrical run, people are very excited to watch it on digital screens. Veera Dheera Sooran: Part 2, spearheaded by Chiyaan Vikram, received appreciation from critics and performed decently at the box office, clocking Rs. 60 crores gross.

Veera Dheera Sooran will be available to stream on Prime Video in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada languages from Thursday. The film went unnoticed in the Telugu states due to bad promotions and a bad release date. Since many Telugu people didn’t watch it in theatres, Veera Dheera Sooran is expected to register a good viewership on OTT.

Malayalam cinema’s most anticipated film, Empuraan, is hitting the big screens in a couple of days. Empuraan is the sequel to Mohanlal’s blockbuster Lucifer, directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran. Lucifer was remade as Godfather in Telugu by Chiranjeevi, but it flopped at the box office. Lucifer itself had a theatrical release in Telugu, and hence, people didn’t show much interest in watching Godfather.

During Empuraan’s Telugu promotions, Mohanlal was asked if he had watched Lucifer’s Telugu remake. Mohanlal answered, “I watched Godfather, but they changed the story a little bit. A lot of my films were remade in other languages. But I don’t think the Godfather team can make a second part because a couple of characters were not there in the first part compared to Lucifer.”

The significant change that Godfather director Mohan Raja made to the Telugu version was that he had done away with Tovino Thomas’ character. Mohan Raja believed that Tovino’s character didn’t contribute much to the conflict in the original. However, after watching Empuraan’s trailer, it appears that Tovino Thomas will play a vital role in changing the narrative, and Mohanlal would have been referring to it.

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