After the biggest debacle in his career with Ram Gopal Varma ‘Ki Aag’ Mollywood super star Mohanlal may again team up with Varma for a new movie.
Ram Gopal Varma is planning to make a sequel to his much acclaimed hit ‘Company’ which had Mohanlal in a key role. The sequel will also feature Lal in the same role, as in the original.
Apart from this movie Mohanlal is also a part of the new Hindi movie directed by Vishal Bharadwaj.
Mohanlal made the Bollywood debut with Kala Pani.
Mohanlal is again playing a simple man that of who is trying his best to build a house of his own but tormented by the corruption in the process.
The script of this film ‘Oru Naal Varum’ is written by Sreenivasan and TK Rajeev Kumar will be the director. Mohanlal will take up this film after finishing the first schedule of ‘Christian Brothers’. Changing from stylish designer wear to simple mundu is not difficult for the terrific actor.
Hot news is that the chic Sameera Reddy will play the female lead to Mohanlal in ‘Oru Naal Varum’. Sameera was supposed to a modish glamour role in the shelved film ‘Casanova’. But her role in the new film is expected to be simple and humble.
Sameera is already doing a deglamourised role in Nagesh Kukunoor’s film ‘Yeh Honsla’ playing a woman living in a small village in Rajasthan. We all know this beauty also has brains and so will take things easily in her stride.
‘Oru Naal Varum’ will start rolling on February 14 in Thiruvananthapuram.
The year’s Vishu which is one of the safest season for movie release in Mollywood, will be a little over shadowed by the Indian Premier league which is planned between April 2nd and April 25. Anyhow the industry is not much bothered about IPL and is planning to follow its course as planned.
The movie release for the season will start three weeks back, with Mammootty’s ‘Pramaani’ by B Unnikrishnan planning to grace the theatres as early as March 26. The movie will at least get three weeks free run before the actual day of the festival.
Following on the 2nd of April will be Lal’s sequel to ‘To Harihar Nagar’, titled as ‘In Ghost House Inn’, the humour thriller featuring Mukesh, Jagadheesh, Siddhique and Ashokan. On the 9th of April, Mollywood will have ‘April Fool’ directed by Viji Thampy featuring Siddhique and Jagadheesh.
On the day of Vishu, three biggies will get into theatres, Mohanlal’s ‘Alexander The Great’, Prithviraj’s ‘Thanthonny’ and Dileep’s ‘Pappy Appacha’ which are all planning for wide releases. Anyhow the Vishu release plans will make every film goer pretty sure that they will definitely have plenty to cheer for the vacation.
‘Drona’ had been the name of fallen movies in all the other languages of the Indian cinema. Be it the Big budget movie in Hindi featuring Abhisek Bachchan or others in South, every movie with the name had been a disaster. And when the jinx was sounded for the Mollywood film, the makers added a 2010 to it believing on some weird superstition. Anyhow, the first impression from the initial days seems to be that even the addition numerals to the title didn’t work in favour of the movie.
The movie has already started loosing at box office and it will be hard to make a recover in the coming days. Most of the critics and fans feel that the movie has the style but lack that essential punch and dialogues needed in the proceedings. Most of the blame is put on its scriptwriter A K Saajan, whose sequences failed to work. The movie as per the trade may not sink as it is sure to earn a good amount as the satellite rights. And with the next Mammootty movie ‘Pramaani’ scheduled only after two months, ‘Drona’ may somehow retain its cost of production.