Aami first look poster released

Director Kamal’s long awaited movie Aami is finally all set to go on floors. The movie is a biopic on late writer Kamal Das aka Madhavikutty. The movie titled as Aami will have Manju Warrier in the lead role. Madhavikutty was fondly called Aami, which means I in Bengali language. Official first look poster of the movie was released today.

Manju Warrier in the poster resembles the writer’s younger days with the long hair and glasses. The movie was caught in a lot of controversies and specualtions for the past few months.

Director Kamal had initially roped in Bollywood actress Vidya Balan to play the lead role. It was initially scheduled to start in September 2015 but got postponed repeatedly due to Vidya’s tight schedule. Finally the actress decided to opt out of the project owing to creative differences with the director.

Vidya Balan backed off from the project, after she was unhappy with the last minute changes in the script. It was reported that the actress opted out due to political reasons. Director Kamal, a left wing supporter made some controversial remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but Vidya’s spokesperson made it clear that she walked out due to strictly professional reasons.

After Manju was signed for the project, she wad targeted by cyber bullies for collaborating with Kamal and doing such a controversial subject. Kamala Das’ life was also not short of controversies mainly due to her bold writings and her conversion to Islam.

Prithviraj Sukumaran and Murali Gopy are said to be playing important roles in the movie. Aami will be produced by P T Rafel and Roban Rocha on a budget of 5 Crores. M Jayachandran and Thoufeeq Quershi will be handling the music director. Sreekar Prasad is the editor while Oscar award winning sound designer Resul Pookkutty is also part of the technical team.