Mohanlal allots 45 days for Resul Pookutty’s film
While filmmakers in the west have already dived deep into the digital world of cinema, Indian filmmakers are slowly starting to explore the possibilities of this medium. In the last couple of years, several web series and films have been made in India, but most of them from Bollywood. Down South, things are still in the nascent stage.
Academy Award winning sound designer Resul Pookutty is now trying his hand in direction. Though his directorial debut will be a Bollywood mainstream film, he is also planning a web cinema. Malayalam superstar Mohanlal will be playing the lead role in this movie. Resul himself revealed this in a recent interview.
With this, Mohanlal will most probably the first superstar from the South to act in a web film. The star has allotted 45 days from his packed schedule for this project. According to Result, it is a very subject and script works have already been completed. An US based company is producing the movie. More details are expected to be revealed shortly.
Mohanlal is currently shooting for ‘Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham’. He recently finished his portions for ‘Kaappaan’, the upcoming Tamil film which also stars Suriya in the lead. ‘Ittymaani Made In China’ with director duo Jibi-Joju, ‘Big Brother’ with Siddique and an untitled film with Arun Gopy are his other projects in the pipeline. His next release will be the Prithviraj directorial ‘Lucifer’, which is scheduled to hit screens by this month end.
