Prithviraj picks up the phone.
Dials Mohanlal.
And casually drops one of the cheekiest pitches in Malayalam cinema history.
"You've played my dad. How about playing my granddad?"
Mohanlal's reply?
"Pinnentha mone!" (Of course, why not!)
And just like that — a single film quietly mutated into a full-blown cinematic universe. 🌌
It started as Khalifa — a Vysakh-directed action entertainer with Prithviraj in the lead.
Then something happened on the London schedule.
The footage hit different. The scale felt bigger. The confidence shot up.
And writer Jinu Abraham's hidden backstory for one character — Mambarakkal Ahmed Ali, the grandfather — suddenly demanded a stage of its own.
That character is now Mohanlal.
No longer a maybe-sequel idea floating in the air.
It's locked. It's canon. It's coming.
And yes — it's gearing up for a proper Onam box-office clash. 🔥
Here's the part most people miss.
In his Hollywood Reporter India chat, Prithviraj said something that flips the usual snobbery on its head:
"Mass entertainers are the toughest films to make."
Why?
Because you're not making it for critics.
You're making it to elicit a reaction — a whistle, a roar, a single-screen eruption.
You can't fake that.
He name-checked the masters who cracked the code:
"It requires incredible skill," he said.
Coming from the man behind Lucifer and Empuraan… that lands.
July 9, 2026.
I, Nobody lands in theatres.
Directed by Nissam Basheer. Co-starring Parvathy Thiruvothu.
A heist thriller where Prithviraj plays Rajeevan — an ordinary government employee suddenly accused of masterminding a massive bank robbery.
Small man. Huge crime. Zero escape.
Two films. Two genres. One actor playing chess with the Malayalam box office.
A heist thriller in July.
A universe-launching action epic in August.
And somewhere in the middle of it all — Mohanlal saying pinnentha mone to becoming somebody's on-screen grandfather.
Mollywood is cooking something special.
That's all for now!
