New Delhi, May 12 -- It's the movie villains who give us the best dialogue. Whether it's Kitne Aadmi Thay from Sholay, Mr India's Mogambo Khush Hua, or Why So Serious? from The Dark Knight, these lines uttered with delicious menace by their antagonists have become iconic. Joining this pantheon of spine-chilling villainous lines is the simple Hello! that the character George Mathan utters in the Malayalam movie, Thudarum. Said with a barely there nasal twang and accompanied by a toothy grin, the "Hello" seems disarming until it's not. Here's a villain who is as charming as a cobra and to give credit where it's due, it's ad filmmaker Prakash Varma who plays Mathan with incredible charm.

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