When
MohanLal appeared for his audition in Navodaya studio for manjil virinja pookkal, there were three judges. Two of them (Jijo and Fazil) gave him 95 marks out of 100 and the third judgegave 5 out of 100 and he was was none other than the director
Sibi Malayil. Years later, MohanLal won 2 national awards (kireedom, bharatham) in the movies directed by Sibi.