Mohanlal thanks moviegoers ahead of L2:Empuraan release-OxBig News Network

Actor Mohanlal on Wednesday expressed his gratitude to lakhs of moviegoers across the world who are eagerly waiting to watch his L2:Empuraan movie releasing on Thursday (March 27).

“The film has grown big from just a dream in the beginning,” he said at the media interaction held here ahead of the release of the sequel to Lucifer. Stating that he knew nothing else but cinema, Mr. Mohanlal said that he had completed 47 years in the industry. “I came at a very young age and had the blessings of several persons,” he said.

On speculations about the huge budget for L2:Empuraan, he said that the budget of a movie depended on its making. “You can decide the budget of Empuraan after watching it,” he said. He said that the story for the third part of the franchise was ready and hoped that the audience response to Empuraan would encourage those behind it to make it a reality.

He said that his passion for cinema prompted him to produce movies like Kaalapani and Vanaprastham, without thinking much about its financial gains.

Actor Prithviraj, director of the movie, hoped that Empuraan would become a milestone in the Malayalam film industry. He said that the box-office response of the movie might open up new doors before the Malayalam film industry and encouraged filmmakers and scriptwriters to dream big.

Antony Perumbavoor and Gokulam Gopalan, co-producers of the movie, said that they were happy to back a pan-Indian movie, with Mohanlal in the lead role. Actors Manju Warrier, Tovino Thomas, and Indrajith said that they were delighted to be part of such a big movie.