Mammootty had wrapped up the shooting of Shylock a few days ago and it was reported that he would shift his focus to One. An update now is that the muhurat of One happened recently with Joju George, Ranjith, Shankar Ramakrishnan, Salim Kumar, and Ramesh Pisharody attending the event.
Reports are that it is a political drama that has Mammootty playing the Chief Minister of Kerala. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Renji Panicker and Sreenivasan, Joju George and Murali Gopy have been roped in for important roles. The film, directed by Santhosh Viswanath, is bankrolled by ICHAIS Productions. One is currently in the pre-production mode and will start rolling soon.
Further, Mammootty’s Mamangam, directed by noted filmmaker M Padma Kumar, has reached the final stages of post-production. It is a heavy budget film made on a budget of Rs. 50 crore. It is expected to hit the marquee on November 21.
Mamangam is a period film based on a medieval fair for the warriors and it is presumed that Unni Mukundan will be playing a warrior in it. It has four heroines, Prachi Desai, Prachi Tehlan, Malavika Menon and Abhirami V Iyer in the star cast and those playing supporting roles are Neeraj Madhav, Sunil Sukhada, Meghanathan and Sohan Seenulal.
The film has Ganesh Rajavelu aka Jim Ganesh wielding the camera, M Jayachandran scoring the music, Sreekar Prasad in charge of the editing, and Kaecha Khamphakdee choreographing the stunts. It is being bankrolled by Venu Kunnampilly under the banner Kavya Films.
Earlier, Mamangam was shot in different locations such as Kannur, Ernakulam, Ottappalam, Vagamon and Athirapally. Reports are that the final schedule, which spanned over two months, had nearly 2000 junior artistes participating in the shooting.
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