Priyadarshan-Mohanlal movie Oppam started rolling !

The evergreen magical combination of Mohanlal and Priyadarshan uniting again for a film this year and the flick titled Oppam had already started rolling yesterday at Ernakulam. This actor-director combo is one of the best not only in Malayalam cinema, but also in Indian cinema as a whole as well. They had given several evergreen films and several blockbuster success as well. Most of their films were milestones in Malayalam cinema and it will not be an exaggeration to say that most our current generation actors, writers and directors were influenced by films from this combination when it comes to comedy or total entertainers. Above 90% their films was box office successes and the characters , dialogues etc from those films were still got more followers than any current super successful characters of this generation.

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Even though comedy films are their trademark, this time this combo is coming with a crime thriller. Mohanlal reportedly plays a visually challenging character in it and it will be for the first time in his career that he plays a full-fledged blind character. Apart from Mohanlal, this film will have Nedumudi Venu, Chemban Vinod, Aju Varghese, Anusree, Vimala Raman, Samudrakkani, Mamukkoya, Ganesh Kumar, Kalabhavan Shajon, Manikkuttan, Kunchan, Bineesh Kodiyeri, Edavela Babu, Baby Meenakshi etc. Ekambaram is the DOP of this film and Jimjacob will compose music for this flick. The story of this film is written by a new face named Govid Vijayan and Priyadarshan himself written the screenplay and dialogues of the film.

Priyadarshan had written screenplays before and most of them were super success as well. Major films he written was Boeing Boeing, Thalavattom, Chithram, Thenmavin Kombathu, Minnaram, Kalapani, Chandralekha, Kakkakkuyil etc. There is also one factor that whenever Priyadarshan writes screenplay for other’s story, he had made successes as well. Recently he was not writing many scripts and this one will be a comeback by him to writing as well.

Mohanlal and Priyadarshan last done a film together in 2013, named Geethanjali. But it was a box office failure due to the hype it was created due to the central character played by Mohanlal and also due to the similarities of the plot with Tamil film Charulatha.