Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap met the legendary Malayalam actor Mohanlal recently and posted a pic with him captioning it: “With the legend @actormohanlalofficial. My dad (sic) is just gotten super.” The filmmaker is known to share a good rapport with his counterparts in south India and meet them on occasions.
Anurag, a noted screenplay writer, has also directed several films including Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1 and 2, Gulaal, Mumbai Cutting, That Girl in Yellow Boots, Dev D and Raman Raghav 2.0. Interestingly, Anurag has also penned a part of the screenplay for Nivin Pauly’s upcoming film, Moothon.
Written and directed by Geetu Mohandas, the film has Nivin Pauly playing the central character with Shashank Arora also part of the star cast. The film's script, to be made simultaneously in Malayalam and Hindi, had won the global filmmaking award at the Sundance film festival last year.
Geetu Mohandas had posted on a social networking site about working with Anurag: “Hello Friends, I'm not good with big announcements since we have always done things quietly. So this is a first. Very modestly I want to introduce our exceptional crew members....Rajeev Ravi (He doesn't have a choice:)Ajithkumar Balagopalan Kunal Sharma Wasiq Khan Sneha Khanwalkar Govind Menon Riyas Komu Sunil Rodrigues. With another new member in our family... with whom my collaboration to write the dialogues was simply inspiring... Anurag Kashyap. Eros International and Aanand L Rai ( Colour yellow productions) presents a Jar pictures production. Thank you Aanand ji, Alan McAlex Ajay Rai
Nivin Pauly It's time for some MAGIC!!!”
Bollywood director Anand L Rai, known for making films like Tanu Weds Manu, Tanu Weds Manu Returns and Raanjhanaa, has produced Moothon under his banner Colour Yellow Productions. Rajeev Ravi has cranked the camera for this bilingual.
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