K P Kumaran, the director of Mohanlal's latest offbeat movie 'Aakasha Gopuram', admitted that he has deliberately maintained the theatrical nature of the dialogues in the movie, so as to do justice to Ibsen and his play on which the movie is based.

The director, who spoke to news persons on Saturday, said that he was more than satisfied with the way this film has shaped up, which has already become an event and a major leap in technical fronts. He also added that the native usages may not be sufficient to realize the poetic rendering of the master writer.

K P Kumaran was in the view that the nature of the subject must change according to the nature of the film's subject.

The plot of the drama has been haunting the director for a quarter of a century and he was extremely delighted that this film has been done in a non-Kerala background.

“I did the scripting way back in 1995 but somehow it did not work out, that time. When I finally got the present producers, I was shocked to find that the cover pages of the original script infested by white ants. But later I found that the script inside was intact”, remembers K P Kumaran