Take Off to hit screens tomorrow

Editor turned filmmaker Mahesh Narayanan’s debut directorial Take Off is all set to hit screens all over Kerala tomorrow. Take Off is a story about nurses who get trapped in Iraq during the war period. The movie is inspired from real life incidents when around 40 nurses including Malayalis were trapped in a hospital in Tikrit region in Iraq due to the ISIS attacks.

Kunchacko Boban, Fahadh Faasil, Parvathy Menon and Asif Ali play the lead roles in the movie. Take Off is being made as a tribute to late filmmaker Rajesh Pillai. Many close acquaintances of the late director from within and outside the film industry have come forward to support this movie. The movie is funded by Anto Joseph and Shebin Becker in association with Rajesh Pillai Films. Megha Rajesh Pillai is the executive producer of the movie.

The lead actors Fahadh Faasil and Kunchako Boban have not taken a single penny as remuneration for working in the movie. Kunchacko Boban and Parvathy Menon are playing nurses in the movie while Fahadh Faasil will be seen as Manoj Abraham, an Indian Ambassador in the movie.

Take Off is jointly written by Mahesh Narayanan and PV Shaji Kumar. Sanu Varghese who has worked in movies like Vishwaroopam, Thoongvanam, Wazir etc has cranked the camera. Abhilash Balachandran is the editor while Shaan Rahman has composed the music.