Actor Jayaram who last shared screen space with veteran star Om Puri says he lost his close friend with his demise.
Sharing his experience with Om Puri, Jayaram said, ''While Kannan expressed his desire to rope in Om Puri with a pivotal role in the movie, the team wondered it would be possible. The director sent him across the script and the very next day came, Om Puri sent him a positive reply and we all were overjoyed. Om Puri was seen in the role of a godman in the movie, a role that could have been best portrayed by Thilakan chettan from Malayalam industry if he was alive.
''Before Om Puri joined for shoot, his close friends had told me that he doesn't make friends easily and going by his rough looks, we thought someone of his stature would have a starry air. On the contrary, we had a blast shooting for the film.''
''During the shoot, an incident happened and I kept on teasing him with that. The place where we were shooting had many monkeys and one fine day Om Puri was spotted giving biscuits to the monkeys and suddenly one monkey leaped on him. The funniest part was that he didn't knew that I was watching him, shooting the entire thing on my phone. I teased him saying I will put the video online and make it viral. I think it was a blessing for someone like me to have acted with someone of his calibre in a Malayalam movie. Before leaving the sets, he said that it was the liveliest team he had been part of in the recent times.''
