Drishyam 2 was nowhere in his scheme of things, director Abhishek Pathak tells us. It was his producer-father Kumar Mangat Pathak who suggested that he helm the Ajay Devgn, Tabu, and Akshaye Khanna-led sequel to Drishyam (2015), which in turn was a remake of Mohanlal’s 2013 Malayalam film of the same name. “I wondered, ‘Why should I make it?’ Jeethu [Joseph] sir made the 2013 Malayalam original, and [the late] Nishikant [Kamat] made the Hindi adaptation. I wasn’t sure [about helming the sequel]. It is a huge responsibility and challenge to do something that has already been done. Putting your stamp is important,” says the director. 

Mohanlal leads the Malayalam original