The massive success of Pulimurugan has inspired filmmakers to plan movies on a bigger canvas: Prithviraj
Malayalam cinema is witnessing a golden period. It is a period of transition where many big budget movies are being planned. Last year, Mohanlal’s action entertainer Pulimurugan became the first ever Malayalam movie to touch the 100 crore mark. The kind of success achieved by that movie was unprecedented in Mollywood. Pulimurugan’s massive success proved that big budget movies are commercially viable in Mollywood.
After the success of Pulimurugan, many big budget movies are being planned in Mollywood. Recently, Prithviraj also reiterated the fact that Pulimurugan’s massive success has inspired filmmakers to plan movies on a bigger canvas.
Mohanlal recently announced that the long awaited project Randamoozham is indeed happening and the movie will go on floors next year. It is scripted by MT Vasudevan Nair based on his novel of the same name. Popular ad filmmaker Srikumar Menon will helm this project which will be made as a multilingual in all major languages in India and English.
According to reports, apart from Mohanlal, Randamoozham will also feature some of India’s biggest stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Tamil superstar Vikram, Telugu superstar Nagarjuna, Kannada superstar Shivraj Kumar, Prabhu and Manju Warrier. Mohanlal will be playing the lead role of Bheemasenan in this epic movie which is based on the Kurukshetra war from Mahabaratha. Randamoozham is said to be the most expensive movie ever in India cinema, planned to be made on a budget of 600 crores.
Prithviraj’s upcoming epic movie Karnan is being planned on a massive budget of 300 crores. R.S Vimal who debuted with the romantic blockbuster Ennu Ninte Moideen will be helming this movie. Apart from Prithviraj, some top stars from other major languages will also be playing substantial roles in the movie. The technical team of Karnan have already started their pre-production works and the digital story board works at the Ramoji Rao Film city in Hyderabad.
Chengazhi Nambiar is another big budget Malayalam movie. The movie, written and directed by debutant Sidhil Subramaniam is based on the lives of Chengazhi Nambiar, Chandroth Panicker and many other historical figures who fought against Samoothiri in Maamaankam in 1505 AD. Tovino Thomas is playing the role of Puthumana Panicker in this movie. The team has not yet released the names of other cast members. Chengazhi Nambiar is being planned as a multilingual in several languages. The movie is also planned on a grand scale with a massive budget of 100 crores. Currently the pre-production works the movie are underway.
Apart from these, some other projects are also being planned like Mohanlal- Prithviraj team’s Lucifer, Mohanlal- Jackie Chan team’s Nair San, Mammootty’s Karnan etc.
