Malayalam superstars Prithviraj Sukumaran and Dulquer Salmaan are known to be thick friends and have often been spotted in each other’s videos posted on their respective social media accounts. However, despite rumours of Prithviraj making cameo appearances in Dulquer’s films – King Of Kotha and Kurup – the duo has never shared screen space yet. Needless to say, their fans are waiting for them to come together in a film.
In an exclusive chat with News18 Showsha, Prithviraj reveals why such a film has hasn’t happened yet. “I would love to do something with him and collaborate on a film. I’m sure that Dulquer would say the same thing. I know people are looking forward to seeing Dulquer and myself together. And because it’s so highly anticipated – at least in Malayalam – both of us share the responsibility of lending ourselves to such a film only when a script like that comes across,” he tells us candidly.
Talking about how they’re both waiting for a great script to come their way that can do justice to their first ever collaboration, Prithviraj states, “We can’t just start off from the other end of the ideation saying, ‘Let’s do a film together and then start searching for a script.’ That’s not the right way to go about it. So, hopefully, someday a writer or a filmmaker will walk up to both of us and say that there’s a script for us and we both mutually think that we fit the parts.”
Of late, reports are doing the rounds that Prithviraj has cast Dulquer in his next directorial titled L2: Empuraan, the second instalment in a planned trilogy succeeding Malayalam film, Lucifer. Reacting to the news, he tells us, “I’ve not let out any cast details on Empuraan. So, as of now, the only person I can confirm is Mr Mohanlal.”
While Prithviraj was recently seen in the pan-Indian film, Salaar, where he shared screen space with Telugu superstar, Prabhas, he tells us that he isn’t particularly keen on directing a multilingual film. In fact, he reveals that Prashanth Neel wasn’t looking at casting actors from different markets just to create a pan-Indian project with Salaar.
The Jana Gana Mana and Kaduva actor realised it when he told Prashanth that he wouldn’t be able to do the film due to the pandemic. Recalling the episode, he says, “If all he wanted was a star, I wasn’t the only option. He’s Prashanth Neel and after KGF 2, he could’ve gone to anybody. In his mind, Prithviraj was Vardharaja Mannar. I’m also equipped enough as a filmmaker and an actor to read a script and hear a narration and understand if they’re after the star or the actor. The idea is to let the actor make the decision and not the star.”
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