Prithviraj Sukumaran

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.