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The answer that you have been seeking can be found in the BO result of Rajamanikyam & Pazhassi and many other IHs created by Mammookka.
Just note that the star power doesn't have any relation with the overall gross. Films such as Godather, IHHN, Ramjirao, Ordinary, Classmates, Meesha Madhavan, Commissioner, Premam, Vellimoonga, Njan prakashan etc wouldn't have become such a huge success if so. The star power can only bring initial and satellite rights things. The performance dictates the overall BO result.
You can just compare the initial of Lalettan & Mammookka movies (all kinds of films - big budgets, low budgets, offbeat) to evaluate their star power. What I see is Lalettan has an edge in Tvm while Mammookka has an edge in Central (slightly) & South. Of late, Mammookka has been churning out parippu vada thallippoli films without making even a single film that pleases almost everybody which has caused the general audience to get angry with him, esp the so called high class audience from multiplex who value film quality more.
Do you really think TGF and Abraham would have become IHs if they featured Mohanlal? Contrary to that, without Mammookka's swag, the TGF would have been a dud.
We can easily say Mammootty can equal or even better the performance of Lal in Drishyam, Puli & Lucifer. Thus making the film garner even better WOM which will thus make it a bigger BO success.
PM nu post release athrayum hype kittiyath athile oru scene viral aayathanu. And that scene didn't feature Mohanlal, but a kid and a tiger. Puli le action scene Mammookkaye kond pattumo ennanu chodyamenkil Madhura raja kandal ath clear aayikkolum..
Lucifer was a Pritvi-Murali movie rather than a Mohanlal movie. He wasn't even the actor who carried the film, it was Vivek. Even the best scene of the movie didn't feature him, but it Tovino. If Lucifer featured Mammootty, the mass level would have multiplied many a time. Mammookka can create more mass with just a look.
Drishyam script was the USP of the film. Even Mammookka was the first choice of director for the particular role. Drishyathile police station scene okke vere level ethiyene.
But Lalettan Pazhassi, Rajamanikyam, Madhura raja cheythirunnel ithrayum vallya hit aavumo enn mathramalla ath audience accept cheyth oru hit aakumo enn polum samshayamanu.. Pazhassi hit aavum coz it's not a one man show, but RM, MR chance is close to zero. Kilichundan, vamanapuram performance nammal kandathanallo (I'm not comparing the film's, but performance). I am pretty sure Mohanlal is solely responsible for kilichundan becoming a disaster in BO. There are some mannerisms people expect in Mohanlal or Dileep characters, if the characters won't offer them, they will end up as a failure more often than not.
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