Recently, at an event for inaugurating the Pazhassi Day observance, writer MT Vasudevan Nair, who wrote the screenplay for Pazhassi Raja, said that the film had helped a long dream of his to come true. He was proud of the producer and director for doing a historical film about the history of a small locality, which everyone now knows about, thanks to the film. He also feels that Mammootty did a great job playing the character and didn’t change the historical part of it at all.

-Sampurn Media