Chennai, April 2 (IANS) Actor Tovino Thomas, who plays the lead in director Dijo Jose Antony's upcoming big budget Malayalam action entertainer 'Pallichattambi', has now disclosed how a church set erected for the film was so realistic that an elderly person mistook it to be a real church and offered prayers there.

During an exclusive interview to IANS, actor Tovino Thomas was asked about the challenges faced by the unit in recreating the era of 1958 -- the time period the story is set in.

Responding to the question, the actor said, "While I was shooting for 'Anweshippin Kandhethum', the story was set in the nineties. I am an 89 born person. So, I had a little more knowledge about the nineties because I have seen it in movies and I have seen it in person as well. But for this film, the story is set in the fifties. 1950s is something that I have no clue about. Even my father was not born in 1950. He was born in 1952. So, we could only take references from old photographs, descriptions from old books. That's how the set work was done."

He then went on to give details of how a whole area in Thodupuzha was transformed into one portion of a village and how they shot for several days in that set itself.

"So, we had to construct a church. And not just the exterior of the church, the interior of the church also. And we remember, while shooting, one old lady came and actually prayed there. We were sad that she had misconstrued the set to be a church but we didn't have the courage to go and tell her that this was not an actual church because a prayer is a prayer anyway. But at the same time, we were low-key happy that the set was very convincing," he informed.

He went on to add, "While shooting there, our director did a brilliant job. They had so many shops and buildings and this church along with a junction. So, it looked so real as if a village existed there. But it was nothing but the bank of a dam, nothing else and it was transformed into this."

--IANS

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