Watch the first song from Mammootty’s Uncle here!

The highly anticipated Mammootty starrer Uncle is gearing up to hit screens on the 27th of this month. Gireesh Damodar, a former associate of Ranjith and Padmakumar, is making his directorial debut with this movie. After the good response for the trailer, the makers have released the first song from the movie in social medias. Bijibal has composed this song.

Uncle is scripted by actor Joy Mathew, his second outing as a scriptwriter after the critically acclaimed ‘Shutter’. Just like his previous movie, Uncle also looks like a socially relevant film. It tells the story of a teeange girl and her father’s friend. ‘CIA’ fame Karthika Muraleedharan and Mammootty play these two lead roles in the movie.

From the trailer we presume that the core plot is set in the journey of Mammootty’s character Krishnakumar aka KK from Ooty to Kozhikode. KK, a Mumbai based businessman, is accompanied by his friend’s daugther in this trip. It is about an unusual situation a middle class family is made to face. The social and political setting of Kerala is of much prominence in the movie.

Mammootty is said to be essaying a grey shaded role in this movie. Fans and commoners are highly excited as Mammootty is playing such a performance-oriented character after a long while. Uncle also stars Joy Mathew, Ganapathi, Vinay Forrt, Suresh Krishna, Kailash, KPAC Lalitha and Muthumani in supporting roles.

Joy Mathew and Sajai Sebastian are jointly funding the movie under their banners of Abra Films International and SJ Films.