Meanwhile, Prithviraj was last seen in Brahmam, which premiered on Amazon Prime recently. I can only count my lucky stars,” he concludes. It’s great to spend so much time with the legend, there is so much to learn. “We have grown so close outside of the cinema because we live in the same building.
It makes me want to do better.” Prithviraj informs that the lockdown resulted in their bond growing stronger. He is a fantastic actor and for him to place so much trust on me as a filmmaker is so gratifying. He is a legend and pretty much everyone in the Malayalam cinema looks up-to him. He adds, “It’s wonderful to have gotten the opportunity to collaborate with him repeatedly. We shot for a couple of weeks, but had to stop the shoot due to the second wave of pandemic,” says Prithviraj. “I have directed Mohanlal sir in two films and of course, his directorial has me in a pivotal role. While Prithviraj has directed the veteran actor in Lucifer and Bro Daddy, Mohanlal too is collaborating with Prithvi in his directorial debut, Baroz. Over the last few years, Prithviraj and Mohanlal have gelled very well over films and more. I am hoping that by the time I finish this magnum opus I am involved with as an actor, Aadujeevitham, which should be sometime by mid next year, the things will be close to normal and I will be working on Lucifer 2.” In-fact, we might have finished shooting for Lucifer 2,” he smiles, adding further, “It’s a film that requires the world to open up and the travel scenarios to be back to normal. “If not for the pandemic, we should have ideally been shooting for the second part of Lucifer by now. It is second only to Mohanlals Odiyan that made more than Rs 3. And now, in an exclusive interaction with Pinkvilla, Prithviraj confirmed that Lucifer 2 is in the offing and it will go on floors by mid next year. 45 crore on day beating the likes of Mohanlals Lucifer and Mammoottys Mamangam. It featured Prithviraj himself in an extended cameo and the makers kept an open ending with scope for a sequel. The 2019 Prithviraj directed political drama, Lucifer, with Mohanlal in the lead is till date the highest grossing film of Malayalam cinema.