Ace histrion Mohanlal said helium is dedicating the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award to Malayalam cinema. “I talk with a heavy consciousness of humility and gratitude here. This is simply a arrogant infinitesimal and I cannot bask this alone. I’m sharing this with everyone, the audience, the radical I person worked with successful the past, the ones I americium moving with successful the contiguous and those I volition enactment with successful the future,” Mohanlal said.
The histrion who had arrived successful Kochi Sunday morning (September 21, 2025) told media persons that the moment was a peculiar and a beauteous 1 for him and the full movie industry. “The grant is for the full Indian movie industry,” helium said.
“I americium not a idiosyncratic who dreams a lot. If you were to inquire maine what my societal committedness is, I would accidental that it is to effort to play the roles I americium being fixed successful the champion imaginable manner. I volition springiness it my champion try. But you cannot bash a movie alone; it is the enactment of galore people. I commune that we get to marque bully movies and that bully movies are made successful the Malayalam industry. I conscionable privation to beryllium a portion of that. That is my dream,” said the actor.
Calling the grant ‘special’ and likening the infinitesimal to thing that volition lone hap successful one’s wildest of dreams, the histrion said the manufacture helium works with is like ‘God‘ for him and that cinema is similar magic.
“Cinema is simply a vicious circle. It is magic. We cannot foretell thing astir it. When 2 movies crook into a success, past it elevates you and erstwhile it fails, it is the opposite. To enactment successful specified an manufacture for 48 years is similar being successful a circus. And I person had the privilege of having galore supportive radical on with maine successful that journey,” helium said.
Adding that helium had the privilege of moving with galore maestro actors and was fortunate capable to play bully roles, the histrion said this is simply a beauteous and peculiar moment. “Cinema has lone 1 language. I americium conscionable portion of the industry; there is nary pinnacle to it. ‘Zenith’ is conscionable a word. So I don’t see to person reached the pinnacle of thing with an award,” helium added.
On Saturday (September 20, 2025), the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting announced that the histrion volition beryllium conferred the country’s highest cinema honour, the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2023. The quality brought overmuch cheer to the Kerala movie industry.
The grant volition beryllium presented astatine the 71st National Film Awards ceremonial connected September 23. The histrion who has had a vocation spanning much than 4 decades has worked successful 400 films and bagged 5 National Awards.
