India — “Jailer 2” Action Director Chethan D’Souza Says the Climax Car Scene Is Mohanlal, as the Stand-In Who Wore the Costume Surfaces

• Fans asked whether a double drove Mohanlal’s climax car scene in “Jailer 2.”
• Action director Chethan D’Souza answered that the man in the shot is Mohanlal.
• A Kerala mimicry artist, Jobi Kodakara, says he stood in for Mohanlal on the film.

Posted: October 19, 2026

Who is actually in the car is a credit question before it is a fan question, and in Indian film it usually only gets answered when the action director decides to answer it. Asked about the climactic car sequence in Nelson Dilipkumar’s Jailer 2, action director Chethan D’Souza replied that it is Mohanlal — not a double — in that shot. His answer covers that sequence and nothing else, which leaves the rest of the role open.

The other side of it surfaced the same day. Jobi Kodakara, a Kerala mimicry artist, actor and stage performer with roughly twenty years of work standing in for actors on stage, posted photographs of himself in an outfit matching Mohanlal’s Jailer 2 costume, then deleted them. How much he shot and which scenes he covered has not been established. That is the ordinary position a double is left in when the work does not appear in the credits: the only record is a photo the performer takes themselves, and the only way to be sure it counted is to take it down.

The speculation has a production backdrop. Mohanlal’s costumer, Jishad Shamsudeen, has said three of the actor’s looks were cut from the finished film and that a scene from the trailer was trimmed out of the theatrical release — which is what started the arithmetic about how much of the part was shot, and by whom.

Sources: Filmibeat — Who is Jobi Kodakara, the mimicry artist who worked as Mohanlal’s body double in Jailer 2 · NewsBytes — Action director Chethan confirms Mohanlal performed ‘Jailer 2’ car stunt

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