Actor Suresh Gopi was once a prominent presence in Malayalam cinema. He is active not only in cinema but also in politics. Director Sabu Sargam is talking about him now. He is talking about how Suresh Gopi was expected to get a national award and did not get it. He says that everyone thought that Suresh Gopi would get an award. The film failed financially. . Searching for Suresh Gopi did not get any recognition. On the other hand, Sabu says that Once Shankhupol was the movie where he saw Suresh Gopi’s best performance. To those words.
The first name of the movie was Ekadashi. But after some people decided that they don’t want that name, the name Wen Shank Paul is given. It was a terribly publicized film. Lakhs were spent. Flakes were placed in every nook and cranny of Thiruvananthapuram. Fluxes were high both downstream and upstream of Ernakulam. But the film failed financially. Later Surya TV realized the artistic value of that movie. Suresh Gopi played the role of a journalist reporting from the war ground. Then he gets cancer. It is a dying condition. But when it comes to a situation where he will be saved by a miracle, in agony of death, he says to his wife Jyotirmayi, you should give me some poison in rice, but I should not know.
I was expecting a National Award for him. There is no other movie starring Suresh Gopi like this. Suresh Gopi has never acted this well even in a play that won him a National Award. It was so awesome. One side of him is weak, he gets up with the rope and eats. While speaking some dialogues, he was crying without glycerine. People expect something from Dileep, something from Mohanlal, something from Mammootty. Similarly, from Suresh Gopi, we expect guns, action and lively dialogues.
