Odiyan will be bigger than Pulimurugan
Mohanlal’s Pulimurugan has set the benchmark of Malayalam movies very high. It had superior quality in terms of technical values and it reaped huge profit in the box office. The movie’s gargantuan success has showed the way for other filmmakers to conceive movies on a bigger scale.
Mohanlal, himself is coming up with two such massive projects; Odiyan and the magnum opus Randamoozham aka The Mahabharata. Odiyan will be the first to go on floors. This highly anticipated movie will mark the directorial debut of noted ad filmmaker VA Shrikumar Menon. He is also directing the upcoming movie Randamoozham aka The Mahabharata, which is being planned as the most expensive Indian film ever. So, Odiyan will be kind of testing waters for Shrikumar Menon.
Odiyan, written by National award winner Harikrishnan is a fantasy drama. It is a thriller that will have a mix of action, romance and magical realism. Odiyan is named after a man who is mastered in odividya. The movie is primarily about Odividya, a black magic trick used to tackle the enemies. It is a genre that is rarely seen in Malayalam cinema, majorly due to the budget constraints. So it will certainly be a new experience for the Malayali audience.
Odiyan has some big names in the cast as well as the technical team. Manju Warrier has been roped in to play the female lead in while veteran actor Prakash Raj will be seen in a powerful antagonist’s role. The makers have roped in Peter Hein to choreograph the stunts.
Peter Hein last year worked with Mohanlal in Pulimurugan. The spectacular stunts in the movie were much raved about and he deservingly won the National award for best stunt choreography. Peter Hein has assured that the stunts in Odiyan will be a notch higher than Pulimurugan.
Sabu Cyril, the man behind huge projects like Baahubali, Enthiran and Ra One, is in charge of the production design. National award winner Sreekar Prasad will be editing this movie. Pulimurugan DOP Shaji Kumar will be cranking the camera and M Jayachandran will be handling the music department. Mohanlal’s own production house Aashirvad Cinemas is funding this movie, which is touted to be one of the most expensive movies ever made in Malayalam cinema.
