When
Mohanlal
Replaced
Mammootty
The
role
of
Dr.
Sunny,
played
by
Mohanlal
in
the
movie,
was
initially
planned
as
a
serious
character.
Director
Fazil
was
planning
cast
Mammootty
in
the
role.
But
later,
the
team
decided
to
add
a
comical
shade
to
the
character and
roped
in
Mohanlal
to
play
the
role.
Second
Unit
Directors
Manichitrathazhu
has
had
a
second
unit
directors
team,
which
consisted
the
popular
film-makers
Priyadarshan,
Siddique-Lal,
and
Sibi
Malayil.
Several
important
sequences
of
the
film,
especially
the
comical
sequences,
were
helmed
by
the
second
unit
directors.
Suresh
Gopi's
Connection
With
The
Climax
Sequence
Fazil
and
Madhu
Muttam
were
initially
confused
about
the
climax
sequence
of
the
movie.
It
was
Suresh
Gopi,
who
suggested
them
to
try
the
dummy
technique
in
the
climax
portions,
to
show
how
Shobana's
Ganga
gets
cured
through
the
special
psychological
treatment.
The
Locations
Most
of
the
audiences
still
think
that
Manichitrathazhu
was
entirely
shot
at
the
Hill
Palace
of
Tripunithura.
But,
the
Oru
Murai
Vanthu
Paarthaya
song
sequence
was
entirely
shot
at
the
famous
Padmanabhapuram
Palace,
Trivandrum.
When
Shridhar
Replaced
Vineeth
The
role
of
Mahadevan,
Ally's
fiance
who
helps
Sunny
during
Ganga's
treatment,
was
initially
offered
to
Vineeth.
But
the
actor-dancer
couldn't
allot
dates
for
the
movie
due
to
other
professional
commitments.
Later,
the
team
went
on
to
rope
in
Kannada
actor
Shridhar
for
the
role.
Malayalam
Movie
With
The
Maximum
Remakes
Manichitrathazhu
still
remains
as
the
Malayalam
movie
to
get
the
highest
number
of
remakes
in
the
history.
The
Fazil
movie
was
remade
in
to Tamil,
Telugu,
Hindi,
Bengali,
and
Kannada
languages.
The
movie
also
had
a
spin-off
named
Geethanjali
in
Malayalam,
in
2013.
The
Industry
Hit
Manichitrathazhu
emerged
as
the
all-time
highest
grossing
Malayalam
movie
of
that
time,
by
completing
365
days
theatrical
run
in
the
all
the
major
cities
of
Kerala.
The
1993-released
film
had
grossed
a
distributor's
share
of
5
Million.
Shobana's
Dubbing
Voices
As
we
all
know,
Shobana
plays
the
role
of
Ganga,
who
suffers
from
multiple-personality
disorder,
in
the
movie.
While
renowned
dubbing
artist
Bhagyalakshmi
dubbed
for
Ganga's
portions,
Tamil
dubbing
artist
Durga
lend
voice
for
Nagavalli,
in
the
movie.