4 min learnNew DelhiAug 27, 2026 08:10 PM IST
Geetu Mohandas’ newest launch Poisonous, that includes Yash within the lead position, hit the theatres on August 26. However, the film is receiving backlash from a piece of the viewers. Amid the criticism, an previous 2019 interview clip of director Mohandas went viral on social media. Within the video, she opened up about her means of writing tales and executing them. The director had revealed that she by no means sticks to the script whereas making a movie, and joked that the author room of her movie Poisonous hate her for doing so.
Throughout a dialog with Movie Companion South round six years in the past, Geetu was requested about her course of behind writing a narrative and planning it. She replied, “I do not know in my writing about the place I’m going. My course of is kind of loopy, erratic, and I arrive at it later. I don’t arrive at it straight away. I don’t know the start, center, finish, the construction.. It doesn’t work like that for me. I don’t know the place the character is heading then it heads someplace. It’s an evolving course of.”
She went on to disclose that for her subsequent movie (speaking about Poisonous in 2019), she has a author’s room to work on the script. “I’ve all the time written scripts on my own. For the primary time, I’ve writers on board with me. I believe they’ve all left the author’s room. They’ve given up on me. They hate me. The reason being as a result of I’m not arriving at it. And that is the explanation I don’t do any sort of narrations.”
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#GeethuMohandas‘s interview earlier than beginning of #Toxic:
“I write one thing else..
I shoot one thing else..
I Edit one thing else..
Then the movie is out..
Then I’m pleased..I by no means stick with the script. After I’m assembly producers for my subsequent movie, I inform the identical that you’re not…
— AmuthaBharathi (@CinemaWithAB) August 27, 2026
The director additional added, “I write one thing, I shoot one thing else, I edit one thing else, after which the movie is out. Then I’m pleased. I by no means stick with the script. Even whereas filming, like even now for my subsequent movie, I’m assembly with producers and stuff, so after I’m speaking to them, that is the one factor that I maintain telling them: ‘You’re not going to get what you’re studying. You’re not going to get what you’re studying!’”
Whereas sharing the throwback video on X, a person wrote, “#GeethuMohandas’s interview earlier than the beginning of #Poisonous: ‘I write one thing else, I shoot one thing else, I edit one thing else. Then the movie is out. Then I’m pleased. I by no means stick with the script. After I’m assembly producers for my subsequent movie, I inform them the identical factor: you’re not going to get what you’re studying.’”
Netizens trolled Geetu Mohandas for her previous remarks within the feedback. “Significantly…and dis time she fooled KVN manufacturing home.. they usually fall for it,” an individual wrote. “She even warned us,” a person joked, taking a dig at Yash’s Poisonous. “These are a director’s phrases. Wow!” a 3rd remark learn.
About Poisonous: A Fairytale For Grown-Ups
Helmed by Geetu Mohandas, Toxic is a interval gangster motion drama set towards the backdrop of Goa. Apart from Yash, the movie additionally stars Kiara Advani, Nayanthara, Huma Qureshi, Tara Sutaria, and Rukmini Vasanth. It has been produced by KVN Productions and Monster Thoughts Creations.
