Simhasanam(2012)&It's Inspirations

Shaji Kailas rightly mentions his inspirational source in the opening credits of his movie, “Simhasanam”. This time he is inspired by an old, American underworld novel called“The Godfather”, which talks about  the story of a fictitious Mafia family based in New York City (and Long Beach, New York), headed by Don Vito Corleone, who became synonymous with the Italian Mafia.  If we talk about world cinema, then there are two other movies, made on the same novel mentioned below : 1. “The Godfather” (1972) (American-English).  Check out at : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/ 2. Dharmathma (1975) Check out at : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361505/ 3. Sarkar (2005) Check out at : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432047/ And if we talk about our Malayalam Cinema, then a similar kind of storyline was there in Mammootty & Sumalatha Starrer “Parambara” (1990). And the same theme was also witnessed in Mohan Lal & Rupini starrer “Naaduvazhikal” (1989).