Celebrations are in order for the team of Drishyam 2 as the film crossed the Rs 100-crore mark yesterday. Director Abhishek Pathak has his own way of celebrating the success. “I’ll rest now, as I haven’t slept for a year,” he begins. In a year when Bollywood has struggled to lure audiences back to theatres, the Ajay Devgn-starrer — an adaptation of Mohanlal’s Malayalam film franchise of the same name — has come as a shot in the arm.

“I had seen the Malayalam original, but I wanted to tell the story differently. We didn’t want a frame-by-frame copy. The changes happened in terms of storytelling, screenplay, and visual treatment. I was confident that we would enter the Rs 100-crore club.”