Malayalam filmmaker Alphonse Puthren has always kept his unabashed opinion on social media platforms. Be it praising a filmmaker’s work or taking a swipe at serious issues. Recently, the Gold director shocked everyone when he announced that he is quitting the film-making business, in the light of a discovery related to being on the autism spectrum.
On Monday, Alphonse shared the news through his Instagram handle. He wrote, “I’m stopping my Cinema Theatre Career. I have Autism Spectrum Disorder, which I found out yesterday on my own. I don’t want to be a burden to anyone else. I will continue doing songs and videos and short films and, at most, an OTT. I don’t want to quit cinema, but I have no other option. I don’t want to make promises that I can’t keep. When health is weak or unpredictable, life brings a twist like an interval Punch.”
Earlier this year, he voiced his disappointment in a lengthy essay — reacting to the critical responses he received about his film. In his message, he insisted that he welcomes criticism of his work, but was annoyed by some of the terms that have been used to characterise Gold.
The director urged his followers to read reviews of his movie Gold, which he claimed are full of jealousy, contempt and mockery. He sarcastically thanked the negative reviewers and asserted that the reviews contained unsolicited advice for him. Comparing filmmaking with tea-making, he wrote: “You can say the tea is bad with ease. How strong is it? Is the water level too high or not? Is the milk surplus excessive or not? Whether the milk has gone bad or not? Is there too much or not enough sugar?”
In his post, he further wrote that the individual who has to make tea in the future will benefit from all of this criticism. He said: “You can use words like lousy tea, awful tea, and disgusting tea to stroke your ego. No one is helped by this. This movie is not Neram 2 or Premam 2. This movie is titled Gold.”
He further shared: “This movie was not created by the crew and me with the intention of upsetting, enraging or wasting your time. Don’t mistrust me, please.’’
The footnote contained Alphonse’s snarkiest retort to his naysayers. He wrote, “NOTE: If I directed a movie like Gold for the first time, don’t say you could have done it that way or that way. If I had previously produced a movie like Gold, you would have been correct.’’
This was Alphonse’s first movie in seven years. Premam was his debut project in 2015, which quickly became a box-office hit.
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