Captain : Life story of footballer VP Sathyan to be made into a movie

Another biopic is coming to grace the silver screens and this time it will be from Mollywood. We saw many biopics of sports persons like Pele, MS Dhoni etc from Hollywood and Bollywood this year.

Now, one such film is coming next year from Mollywood as well and it will be based on the life of legendary footballer from Kerala, VP Sathyan.

VP Sathyan died 10 years ago and this movie will be a tribute to him. The film has been titled as Captain and young actor Jayasurya will play the character of VP Sathyan in it.

Also Read : Pulimurugan created new record for Mollywood in USA box office

Debutant Prajesh Sen will direct this movie and he had written it. Prajesh was the assistant director of master film maker Siddique earlier.

This will be a big budget movie which will have a budget above 10 crore rupees. It will be bankrolled by TL George under the banner of Goodwill Entertainments.

He had earlier produced movies like Kasaba with Mammootty and Aan Maria Kalippilanu with Sunny Wayne.

VP Sathyan was the Captain of Indian National football team and he was a player who played at the center back position for his team. He committed suicide in 2006, by jumping out from a train.