Superstar Mohanlal, now holed up in his Chennai residence since the nationwide lockdown began, on Wednesday interacted with Kerala Health Minister K.K. Shailaja and about 250 health professionals across the state and appreciated their great service to the society. The highlight of the nearly one hour long interaction was Mohanlal singing a hugely popular Malayalam Film Song "Lokem muzhuven sukem pakeran ayi snehadeepeme mizhi thureku" from the film "Snehadeepame Mizhi Thurakku" directed by A.P. Bhaskaran, which released in 1972.

The superstar profusely thanked each and every health worker doing great service to the society by foregoing all their difficulties, besides pointing out that the coming days will be crucial for the state. During the interaction, the principal of the Kannur Medical College, N. Roy, said that he was Mohanlal's classmate at the Government Model High School in the state capital and the superstar was immensely happy to know about it.

On her part, Shailaja thanked Mohanlal for interacting with the overworked health professionals. Mohanlal has contributed Rs 5 million to the CM's Covid Relief Fund. Recently, the Mollywood superstar had also partook in the virtually shot Family short film on coronavirus awareness, which also featured top names from film industries across the country, including Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajinikanth, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Diljit Dosanjh, Chiranjeevi, Mammootty, Sonali Kulkarni, Shiv Raj Kumar and Prosenjit Chatterjee.

Speaking on the short film, Ad filmmaker Prasoon Pandey told PTI, "The back story is incredible. Amit Ji's portions were shot by Abhishek. Nick Jonas shot Priyanka's segment, Rajinikanth ji's was shot by his daughter Soundarya. Ranbir and Alia went behind the camera for each other. Everyone was so gracious. They didn't come into the frame, but they were simply helping. They were so selfless."

(As per inputs from IANS)