Triple role films are not very usual in our film industry even though in some films the lead character come up with multiple get ups. Our Superstars like Mammootty and Mohanlal has done many double roles in their career as well. But only Mammootty has done the triple role when it comes in the case of superstars. Mammootty had done it in his Ranjith directorial film Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathira Kolapathakathinte Kadha which released few years back and for which Mammootty won several recognition as well. He had done 3 characters in that film even though one character does not have much screen space.
Now the latest news from the industry says that Mammootty is again doing a triple role film next year. The film will be conceived by the debutant director named Saji. The news came from the writer Benny P Nayarambalam who is writing down the screenplay of this upcoming flick. The report says that the film is all set to start next year March and the team is not yet finalized about the other cast specially the female lead of the film. The cast and crew details of the flick will be announced soon.
The report about the film also says that the three characters that Mammootty playing will be of above 50 years old. The film is not titled as of now and that too will be announced along with the cast and crew details. In Paleri Manikyam, Mammootty played characters which is at the old age or middle aged and recently the director of that film Ranjith said to the media that it was Mammootty who insisted to play all those 3 characters in that film. At first Mammootty was chosen only to play the central character and the other two characters were reserved for some other actors. But he insisted on playing all those characters by himself.
With this film another debutant director is coming to Mollywood with a Mammootty starrer as Mammootty always prefer newcomers more than to trust the experienced ones. Sometimes he made it big with his decisions and sometimes it backfired as well. Let us see what happens with this one.