Indrajith Sukumaran is on a roll with a few big projects in his kitty. He is currently busy with the Malayalam film Kurup, which has Dulquer Salmaan in the lead role.
In an interview to the Times of India, Indrajith spoke in detail about working in the film: “It’s an exciting project and again the amount of research that has gone into the script is just brilliant and exhaustive. Director Srinath Rajendran and his team have been working on it for over three years now. I play an investigative officer in charge of Kurup’s case in the film, which has a lot of fictional elements too. I have shot for 20 days with the team and it has been an amazing experience.”
Dulquer plays the real life fugitive Sukumara Kurup and Indrajith will be seen as the investigating cop in this crime thriller. Shine Tom Chacko has been roped in to play the role Bhasi Pillai. Kurup also has Sobhita Dhulipala and Sunny Wayne in pivotal roles. Srinath Rajendran is wielding the megaphone for this venture which is based on the life of the most elusive accused till date, Sukumara Kurup. The film is bankrolled by Dulquer Salmaan’s own production house, Wayfarer Films, and M Stars.
Kurup is scripted by Daniell Sayooj Nair and KS Aravind while Jithin K Jose has penned the story. Sukumara Kurup’s is one of the longest unsolved cases in Kerala till date. Accused of murdering a film representative named Chacko, Sukumara Kurup faked his own death. Apparently, his plan was to murder Chacko and pass it off as his own death to claim a large amount of insurance. It was a sensational case; more so because the police could not arrest the main accused who has been on the run since.
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