Malayalis saw themselves, their emotions through Sreenivasan’s characters on screen, says Mohanlal

Senior histrion and Dadasaheb Phalke Award victor Mohanlal has said that Malayalis saw themselves and their varied emotions connected surface done the memorable characters created by renowned actor-screnarist Sreenivasan, who died successful Kochi connected Saturday (December 20, 2025).

“His characters portrayed their symptom and happiness. Who other different than Sreenivasan tin recreate the dreams and disillusionments of the mediate people connected screen?,” helium said successful his Facebook post.

The actor, who had shared the surface with Mr. Sreenivasan successful fashionable movies that see ‘Nadodikattu’, ‘Pattanapravesham’, ‘Varavelpu’, ‘Mithunam’ to sanction a few, said that their narration was acold beyond the realms of having worked unneurotic successful cinema. “The magic successful his penning helped the characters that we played unneurotic transcend time. The characters Dasan and Vijayan resonated with each Malayali, acknowledgment to his unsocial penning skill,” helium said referring to the iconic characters played by him and Sreenivasan successful ‘Nadodikattu’.

“His creations were a reflector to our nine arsenic helium narrated stories of symptom laced with humour. We ever travelled unneurotic similar Dasan and Vijayan successful existent beingness and connected screen, enjoying, quarelling and becoming friends again,” helium said.