Mollywood Mega star Mammootty is all set to act in a Tamil film this year. The film will be directed by Ram who had famous for his film Thanga Meengal which had won the national award for best film in Tamil. The news was confirmed by the director Ram himself as they are planning to start the shoot of the film very soon. They also said that the planning is to release the film by the end of this year.
Some reports also coming in from certain sources is that a Young star from Kollywood has been roped in to play the villain role in this film against Mammootty who will play the lead in this film. But the news was not confirmed yet. The others in the cast and also the title of the film is not yet decided and it will be announced without much delay according to reports. Yuvan Shankar Raja will handle the musical department of the movie and other crew members have not been finalized.
Director Ram is currently doing a Tamil film named Taramani and soon after he finishes his work in that film he will be get ready to start the film with Mammootty. And Mammootty also is busy with his Mollywood projects and he is busy with Bhaskar The Rascal which is directing by Hit maker Siddique. Nayanthara is playing the female lead in this film. After completing Bhaskar The Rascal, Mammootty will join the sets of the last schedule of Pathemaary directed by national award winner Salim Ahammed after Kunjananthante Kada. Reports also heard that his next project will be Acha Din which will be helmed by Marthandan after Daivathinte Swantham Cleetus and the film will start filming on March 20.
Mammootty has acted around 14 Tamil films in his long career and most of the films had done great at Kollywood box-office. The famous among those is definitely Thalapathi directed by Indian cinema’s master craftsman Mani Ratnam in which Mammootty had shared screen space with Super star Rajinikanth and which is a great success at Box office. His other notable films in Tamil are Azhakan, Kandu Konden Kandu Kondein, Anandham etc. Hope his comeback to Kollywood will be a memorable one as well.