Mohanlal assures that Odiyan will have some beautiful songs

The preproduction works for Mohanlal’s upcoming big budget project Odiyan has already kick-started. This ambitious project will mark the directorial debut of popular ad filmmaker VA Shrikumar Menon.

Recently, Mohanlal had posted a video of Odiyan’s music composition sessions on his official Facebook page. M Jayachandran is composing the songs. Rafeeq Ahmed and Lakshmi Sreekumar have written the lyrics for the four songs in the movie. In the video, director Shrikumar Menon, M Jayachandran and Rafeeq Ahmed can be seen.

Mohanlal’s own production house Aashirvad Cinemas is funding this big budget movie movie. The film is written by national award winner Harikrishnan. Odiyan will be a story of love, revenge and myth. Myth has it that Odiyan is named after a man who is mastered in odividya, a black magic trick to tackle the enemies.

Manju Warrier is confirmed to play the female lead in this movie. Prakash Raj will be seen as a powerful antagonist role in Odiyan. Mohanlal and Prakash Raj are teaming up in Odiyan after a two decade long gap.

Pulimurugan cinematographer Shaji Kumar will be cranking the camera for Odiyan while Sreekar Prasad is in charge of the edits while. Peter Hein has been roped in to choreograph the stunts in the movie. The movie will go on floors soon. Palakkad, Pollachi, Hyderabad and Banaras are the major locations.