Looking back, why do you think Mulla wasn't well-received by the audience?

Frankly, I have no clue about it. Perhaps it was not an experiment like my recent films like Classmates, Achanurangatha Veedu, Chanthupottu or Arabikkadha.

Or maybe the viewers expected a love story from the Dileep-Lal Jose team. Mulla had a nice storyline and it seemed to have the perfect grammar that was required from a film. But I don't know what went wrong.

A remake in the pipeline, ten directors coming together to make a film...with such experiments happening, do you think there's still hope for Malayalam cinema?

These changes, experiments and new thoughts are bound to happen. Films like Thirakkadha and Gulmohar are indications of such a change. The most recent example is Passenger, which is unconventional.

The film stars Dileep and Sreenivasan, but it has shown the actors in completely different roles. The changes that we are talking about have always been brought about by people who risked their careers, those who were passionate enough to experiment with newer ideas and by rank newcomers. We are perhaps witnessing such new thoughts and happenings again.

I hope that the new experiments will make a change in our existing scheme of things.