Faahadh and Mamta to pair up for Carbon

Malayalam star Fahadh Faasil is riding high on success with his Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum doing well at the box office. The film, released on June 30th, is a dark comedy film directed by Dileesh Pothan. While the star is fresh out of the success of Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum, we hear some interesting details about his upcoming film Carbon.

Written and directed by Venu, the film will have Mamta Mohandas playing Fahadh’s lead pair. This is for the first time that Mamta and Fahadh are sharing screen space. It may be mentioned here that Mamta was last seen in the Mammootty starrer Thoppil Joppan which hit the marquee recently.

According to the buzz about Carbon, shooting will commence by the fag end of August and the director intends to shoot a major portion of it in a forest.

The highly talented technical crew of Carbon comprises KU Mohanan to handle the cinematography and the National Award winning music composer Vishal Bharadwaj to score the music. Beena Paul has been roped in to take charge at the editing table. Carbon will be bankrolled by Sibi Thottuppuram.

Having proved his mettle as an accomplished actor with Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum, Fahadh is now getting ready for Carbon, which has a very challenging role for him.

Apart from this film, he has a number of other movies in his kitty including Aannengilum Alenkilum, Trance and Naale.

Further, the star is all set to make his debut in the Tamil film industry with the Mohan Raja directorial Velaikaran. In the movie, he will be sharing screen space with Siva Karthikeyan and Nayanthara.

He has also signed another Tamil movie Aneethi Kathaigal. Fahadh made his debut as hero with the Malayalam film Kaiyethum Doorathu in 2002 and has since then has starred in a number of smash hits.