Mohanlal and Mammootty congratulate Take Off team for the success

Renowned editor Mahesh Narayanan’s directorial debut Take Off is the current talk of M Town. The movie starring Parvathy Menon, Kunchako Boban, Fahadh Faasil and Asif Ali in major roles, has been getting hugely positive reports from all the release centres.

Take Off was in the news prior to the relase itself as it was made as a tribute to late filmmaker Rajesh Pillai. So the movie was supported by the whole of Malayalam film industry. Superstars Mohanlal and Mammootty expressed their support by sharing the movie’s official trailer in their social media pages.

Mahesh Narayanan recently met both the superstars and they congratulated the team for their success. Mohanlal, who is currently busy shooting for Villain, could not watch the movie but expressed his watch it soon. Mahesh along with producer Anto Joseph and executive producer Mekha Rajesh Pillai met Mammootty in his home in Kochi. The actor had watched the movie and appreciated their efforts wholeheartedly. Mammootty said that Take Off will be a movie that Malayalam cinema can always be proud of.

Take Off is a story about a group of Malayali nurses who were held captive in Iraq. The movie is inspired from real life incidents that happened in 2014 when a group of nurses were trapped in the Tikrit region in Iraq during the ISIS attacks in 2014. The movie is a fictionalized account of the same. It is jointly written by Mahesh Narayanan and PV Shaji Kumar.

Take Off was funded by Anto Joseph and Shebin Becker in association with Rajesh Pillai Films. Mekha Rajesh Pillai is the executive producer of the movie.