Saj Productions was once the most prominent film production company in Malayalam. Most of the superhit films were produced by Saj Productions. Many of today's big stars had great respect for Sajan, the owner of Saj Productions. Now, actor and director Alleppey Ashraf has spoken about a bad experience that actor Mammootty had with Sajan. He said these things on his YouTube channel.

'Saj Productions was a company with strong financial backing. The company belonged to Sajan Varghese. During the celebration of the 100th day of the success of the film Avanazhi in Kozhikode, advertisements were published in the newspaper that the hero Mammootty was coming. A lot of people came to see Mammootty that day.

Except for Mammootty, the other stars reached the venue on time. Since it was an era without mobile phones, it was impossible to know where Mammootty had reached. The celebration took place without Mammootty. Mammootty reached the venue after the entire program was over. Sajan became very angry about this. Mammootty told Sajan the reason for his late arrival. Sajan was not ready to accept it.

Sajan asked Mammootty to go on stage and deliver a speech. So Mammootty delivered a speech on an empty stage. Mammootty may have done so thinking that it was not good to quarrel with Sajan. This was published in many media outlets at that time along with photos. 'Mammootty makes speech in an empty auditorium' read the headlines.

There have been incidents where producers also became poor. Swayamvara was a prominent clothing shop in Thiruvananthapuram. Its owner was Kannan Reddy. He was a very respectable personality. He wanted to make a film. So director Priyadarshan directed a film for him. The name of the film was Punnaram Cholli Cholli. Seven elephants were brought from different parts of Kerala to shoot a song in that film.

The elephants walked for several weeks. In the meantime, one of the elephants had musth. It caused a lot of damage. The producer had to pay a huge amount as compensation to resolve the problems. Later, the film also failed. That put Kannan Reddy in a serious financial crisis,' said Ashraf.