Mega star Mammootty is doing family oriented and action films one after another such as Rajadhiraja by Ajay Vasudev, Varsham by Renjith Shanker, Fireman by Deepu Karunakaran, Bhasakar The Rascal by Siddique, Acha Din by Marthandan, Pathemary by Salim Ahammad etc. Now it’s the time for a change thinks the mega star and in an upcoming film directed by a newcomer Mammootty will play a romantic hero.
The name of the film will be White and the debutant director will be Uday Ananthan. It will be his first mainstream film debut as he had done one of the short films of the anthology film named Kerala Cafe some years back. And the name of his short film in that anthology was Mrithyumjayam. In this film Mammootty will play the role of a mid -aged man who falls in love with a 25 year old girl. The female lead of the film is not yet decided and the main place where the film will be shot is London.
Uday ananthan, Praveen Balakrishnan and Nandini valsan together had written the screenplay of the film and the dialogues for this film is written by Bipin Chandran. Veteran music director Ouseppachan will compose the music for this film and the film will be financed by famous production controller Dixon Poduthas. They crew has planned to start the film in the last week of August as of now and the title White also not a confirmed one as it may change in the coming days.
Mammootty is not so popular for doing romantic characters and people have a belief that Mammootty can’t have the skill to do a romantic character. The earlier films in which he tried romance have also not done well at box office and that had strengthen the above mentioned believes of the people. And now it is a big decision by Mammootty to try it out again and take up the challenge to go against the odds. He is a man who always stood up to the challenges and he has the caliber to overcome it.
Mammootty is a man who always believes in the abilities of newcomers and reaped gold with them several times in box office. Let us hope that in this film too he will reap gold with the newcomer and with the new character.
