Drishyam, which is the highest grosser and biggest money spinner at box office that Mollywood had ever witnessed. It had amassed rupees 75 crores and  6.5 crore rupees as satellight rights given by Asianet which is now so far the record amount in Malayalam cinema history. Mohanlal films has a large number of audience in big screens as well as mini screens . But as pre reports coming Mammootty starrer film Pathemari which has got great critical appreciation and applause from the viewers is now all set to break Drishyam’s satellite right record of 6.5 crore.

As per the rumors coming, the film was at first offered only 2 crore plus as satellite right as it is not a mass entertainer. Later from the appreciations came for the film , the amount was then raised to rupees 5 crore by the Channels. But as per reports Pathemari team is asking rupees 6.5 crore as Satellite rights and some reports says that if bargaining becomes hot then it can touch a maximum of 7 crore rupees.

The news is not confirmed by anyone officially, but things are going to be going that way accordingly. Recently there is a trend in Mollywood that two channel jointly purchase films and the channel which paid the big share in the amount will telecast the film first and after a particular number of times they will give it to the other channel who had paid only a minimal amount in it.

As per some reports Mohanlal starrer Renjith film Loham has got more than 7 crore rupees in such a business as its satellite rights had been bought by Asianet and Kairali Jointly. Asianet paid around 6 crore rupees and Kairali paid above 1 crore as per reports. The film will telecast in Asianet, a particular number of times before they gave it to Kairali for telecasting it in their channel. This news is also not an officially told one but comes from certain sources.

The Satellite rights are now bought by channel only after analyzing about its chances in mini screen when it is shown in a particular season or holidays. They have to look into the advertisement market as well through which they makes profit after buying films using such huge amount of money.

Mammootty starrer Pathemari which had made great impact here in Mollywood will come to gulf countries on the coming month and to be precise, it will release in gulf countries on November 19. The film directed by the national award winning director Salim Ahammad had released here on October 9 and from the very first show it had really created great positive reviews and already attained the status of one of the classics made in Malayalam cinema history. Mammootty’s performance as Pallickal Narayanan had got great appreciation and it had already become one of the best performance in his career as well.

In Kerala the film is still running with good occupancy at theaters as per reports. Even though the high budget which is around 8-9 crore not made it a commercial success till now, it is on its way to attain that as well. As per trade guides the film is now collected above 6 crore from its 3 weeks of run at box office.

Pathemari is about the life and struggles through which the Non Resident Indians, specially who went to gulf countries to earn a living for his family back home in Kerala. So when it will release in Gulf countries on November 19, it is expected to get a warm welcome there as it tells there story with complete honesty, sincerity and intensity. It portrays four different periods of life in gulf countries of our people.

Each and every character in the film has their own space and other than Mammootty the actors who had given notable performances was Sreenivasan, Siddique, Joy Mathew, Salim Kumar, Jewel Mary etc and the technical section also done a fabulous job which includes Oscar winner Rasool Pookkutty as sound designer and National award winner Madhu Ambat as cameraman as well. Actor Siddique’s son Shaheen Siddique also made his debut through this film in which he played the role of Mammootty’s character’s Son.

The screenplay of the film also written by the director Salim Ahammad himself after making a lot of researches about the life of people who went to gulf countries from 1960’s.