{"id":10938,"date":"2026-04-26T02:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/04\/26\/mammootty-praises-youth-star-chinna-thamizha-i-have-the-same-amount-of-drive-for-acting-as-him-malayalam-movie-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T02:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:59:54","slug":"mammootty-praises-youth-star-chinna-thamizha-i-have-the-same-amount-of-drive-for-acting-as-him-malayalam-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=10938","title":{"rendered":"Mammootty praises \u2018Youth\u2019 star Chinna Thamizha: &#8216;I have the same amount of drive for acting as him&#8217; | Malayalam Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130525578,imgsize-62282,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/mammootty.jpg\" alt=\"Mammootty praises \u2018Youth\u2019 star Chinna Thamizha: 'I have the same amount of drive for acting as him'\" title=\"&lt;p&gt;FB&lt;\/p&gt;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mammootty\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Mammootty<\/a> is all set for his most awaited upcoming film &#8216;Patriot&#8217; which will release on May 1 and promotions are going in full swing for the action flick.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Interestingly, during a recent promotional event for the film, Mammootty praised actor-comedian Chinna Thamizha, saying he also shares the same acting passion as the &#8216;Youth&#8217; actor.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Mammootty says he has many more characters to explore<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>Mammootty made these remarks at a promotional event for his upcoming film Patriot as reported by Cinema Express. During the interaction, a reporter questioned whether he still had unexplored roles left.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Mammootty responded instantly, showing complete confidence. \u201cI have many more characters to explore. I have no doubts about it.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>Reference to \u2018Youth\u2019 star\u2019s journey<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>During the same conversation, Mammootty spoke about a recent success event he had watched. <!-- -->He referred to the emotional speech of Abison Thevarasa, known as Chinna Thamizha, without naming him directly.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>\u201cRecently, I saw the success meet of a film called Youth. Many spoke during it. One of them delivered an emotional speech, expressing his happiness for the chance he finally got in cinema, although his father discouraged him from pursuing roles.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>He used this moment to draw a comparison. He explained that his own passion for acting remains just as strong.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>Mammootty also opened up on how the industry has evolved. He pointed out that promotional events were not common when he began his journey.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>Despite those differences, his drive has remained unchanged. \u201cI have the same amount of drive for acting as him,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/>\u2018Youth\u2019 team reacts with gratitude<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"34\"\/>Following the event, Chinna Thamizha responded to the mention. He took to social media to express his happiness. \u201cThis made my day. <!-- -->Thank you sir.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"39\"\/>Meanwhile, Ken Karunaas, who directed and starred in Youth, also shared his reaction. \u201cCan&#8217;t believe this happened to us. Thank you sir.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"41\"\/>Meanwhile, &#8216;Youth&#8217; turned out to be a surprise hit from Tamil this year and ETimes review of the film noted, &#8220;To his credit, Ken Karunas has designed some comedic set pieces that draw laughs, and the boys around Praveen share a chemistry that keeps their scenes from feeling entirely disposable. Suraj Venjaramoodu lands a few dry comic moments of his own. Given how easy it is for this territory to collapse into unwatchable cliche, Youth stays on the right side of that line for most of its runtime.<!-- --> It could have used twenty fewer minutes, though, and nothing of value would have been lost.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"44\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/entertainment\/malayalam\/movies\/news\/mammootty-praises-youth-star-chinna-thamizha-i-have-the-same-amount-of-drive-for-acting-as-him\/articleshow\/130525560.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mammootty is all set for his most awaited upcoming film &#8216;Patriot&#8217; which will release on May 1 and promotions are going in full swing for the action flick.Interestingly, during a recent promotional event for the film, Mammootty praised actor-comedian Chinna Thamizha, saying he also shares the same acting passion as the &#8216;Youth&#8217; actor.Mammootty says he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}