Mohanlal’s Aarattu release date announced

The much-anticipated release date of Mohanlal’s upcoming film ‘Aarattu’ has been announced. As per the makers, the film will be hitting screens on February 10, 2022. Though the film’s release was planned for Onam this year, it had to be postponed due to the pandemic. This will be Mohanlal’s first theatrical release in over a year. His last to hit screens was the Siddique directorial ‘Big Brother’.

Directed by B Unnikrishnan, ‘Aarattu’ has Mohanlal playing a larger-than-life character named Neyyattinkara Gopan. Udhayakrishna has scripted the film as a proper commercial entertainer set in a rural backdrop. As assured by the makers, it has action, comedy, songs and all other essential commercial ingredients in it.

Shraddha Srinath plays the female lead’s role in it. Music maestro AR Rahman will be making a cameo appearance in a song sequence. The supporting cast also includes actors like Siddique, Sai Kumar, Nedumudi Venu, Indrans, Lukman, ‘KGF’ fame Garuda Ram, Vijayaraghavan, Swasika, Rachana Narayanankutty and Sheela.