Syam Pushkaran on casting Girish Kulkarni in Thankam: ‘He is an actor like Jagathy and Thilakan, he has that range’

He added, “So we knew that he can navigate between both extremes and we have tried utilising that. I think he is an actor like Jagathy chettan and Thilakan. He has that range. He internalised the character from head to toe. You know it’s not him, it’s the character. And when we see that, it makes us really happy.”

Thankam has been directed by Saheed Arafath and co-produced by Fahadh Faasil, Dileesh Pothan and Syam Pushkaran.

During the interaction, Dileesh also spoke about his concerns on the Kerala audience following the story, since it has a mix of various languages like Marathi, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam.

To this, Syam Pushkaran revealed that he also had this concern, and he used, what could be an obstacle, to his advantage while write the story. Talking about the challenge, he said, “It’s very difficult in every sense. It’s always tough to write such characters because there is always chance of repeating information. Reiterating things people already know. That’s the worst way of writing.”

He further explained, “We used that to our favour. Characters have genuine problems to understand what other are saying. For people to understand each other in that scenario amidst their language and communication issues and for bringing in humors element and, since there is an investigation involved as well…we used it in our favour as tools to prove the crime etc. Also without repeating the information we made it till end.”