Says Asianet News Editor and veteran journalist, M.G Radhakrishnan “ I don’t know about perfection but he is the first Malayali actor to have done so much experimentation with slangs. In the long drawn debate that is often measured on the yardstick of flexibility (though the implications vary), spontaneity and effortlessness, this is where (among a lot of other instances) Mammootty wins hands down. It’s also precisely where the actor scores over his legendary rival-Mohanlal. A lesser actor would have turned the scene and the film upside down. He intones it with the same microscopic detailing he displayed while rendering that loud “ Thironthoram” slang. And no, he doesn’t go off the mark even for a nanosecond. In that scene, where he reveals his identity to his mother, Mammootty brings forth the intensity and pathos he is known for, within the parameters of a local dialect. So, it is ironic and momentous that he creates an epic emotional act in the middle of that hilarious mayhem. He renders it with a loud comical drawl and it is considered a huge image shift for someone who is often lampooned for his inability to pull off comedy. In the Anwar Rasheed directed Rajamanikyam, Mammootty plays Bellari Raja-an unschooled buffalo seller who spouts chaste Thiruvananthapuram slang. Bavuttiyudey Namathil (Malappuram-Manjeri).Palerimanickyam Oru Pathira Kolapathakathinte Katha (Kozhikode).What makes the actor such a whiz with slangs? We listened to 14 of them and came out mighty impressed.
No one can pull off dialects so effectively like Mammootty.