Kamala, directed by Ranjith Shankar and starring Aju Varghese in the lead role, has started rolling in Chalakkudy, Thrissur and was wrapped up recently. The first look poster of the film was unveiled by director Ranjith Sankar. Going by the first look, the film's title has a tagline ‘One beautiful puzzle, 36 hours’, as it is said it must be a race-against-time thriller. The first look poster features Aju Varghese in an intense get-up.
The film has Ruhani Sharma playing the female lead in the film. Touted to be a thriller where Aju plays a funny and complicated hero, the movie will see Ranjith returning to the thriller genre. He has previously directed two thrillers—Passenger and Arjunan Sakshi. Aju Varghese has acted in most of the movies directed by Ranjith Sankar. Su..Su..Sudhi Vathmeekam, Punyalan Agarbathis, Ramante Edanthottam and Pretham were the movies in which the duo worked together.
Produced by Ranjith under his own banner Dreams N Beyond, the film also stars Anoop Menon, Sajin Cherukayil, Sunil Sugatha, Motta Rajendran, and Biju Sopanam among others. Anand Madhusoodanan, who has previously worked with Ranjith on six films, will be writing the lyrics and music for the film. Shehnad Jalal is handling the camera while Adil N Ashraf is in charge of the editing.
Aju has a slew of films in his kitty. He has Jack N Jill helmed by ace cameraman Santosh Sivan and is also a part of Dileesh Pothen's Thangam which has Vineeth Sreenivasan playing the lead role. Aju was a part of the recent release Love Action Drama. He was also the co-producer of this film that stars Nivin Pauly and Nayanthara and is directed by Dhyan Sreenivasan.
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