Maheshinte Prathikaram, Mahesh’s Revenge (2016)

“When I was shooting for Idukki Gold, Syam Puskaran, the writer of the film, and I got talking one night. He told me about Thampan Purushan, a man from Puskaran’s town, who was once hit during a brawl. Purushan took an oath that until he hit the guy who thrashed him, he would not wear slippers. But the poor man had to wait a number of years because his opponent had gone off to the Gulf to resume his job. I thought this was a story worth shooting as an exercise or a short film. A few hours into the night, we then got talking about other such characters and situations we knew – a photographer in my town, scenes I remembered from a funeral once, some of our love stories. By the end of the night, we had decided that we had to make a full-fledged film out of all of it.” 

-- Dileesh Pothan interview: ‘If Maheshinte Prathikaram had flopped, I would have quit filmmaking’