Ram Gopal Varma Opens Up on Mohanlal’s Performance in ‘Company’: ‘I Had Issues…’

Ram Gopal Varma Opens Up on Mohanlal’s Performance in ‘Company’: The 2002 company collaboration between the filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma and the Malayalam superstar Mohanlal turned out to be a super-duper box office hit. After 22 years of the film's release, Varma has revealed that he was not initially impressed by Mohanlal's acting abilities.

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In interviewing Milestone Makers for Max, Ram looks back at the work on Company, narrating the script to Mohanlal.

He said, “The first time I met him for Company, I had this feeling that he would ask me many complicated questions about the script, about his role. I was kind of prepared for that, and after finishing the narration, the first and only question he asked me was ‘Sir, how many days do you want?’ So that was like an anti-climax for me. And I am sure he does it with everyone, not just me, because he is an actor who understands the craft, who understands how films are made and I think he does it on trust.”

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When Ram Gopal began shooting the Company, he became increasingly unhappy with Mohanlal's performance, and he kept asking him to do retakes. After a while, he realised that Mohanlal had performed the best take in the very first attempt.

Ram Gopal shared, “Even when he was performing, I had issues in the beginning. I thought he was not doing it the right way and I went on asking him for takes and after 6-7 takes, I was checking them and I found that the first take was the best one". According to him, Mohanlal is a “very instinctive actor”.

About the film

The movie starred Mohanlal as Veerapalli Srinivasan IPS, who contributed to the ultimate undoing of Malik (Ajay Devgn) and Chandu (Vivek Oberoi). The film was a smashing box-office success.

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