Director Bhadran’s upcoming film Joothan will have Mamta Mohandas playing the female lead. Earlier, it was announced that Rima Kallingal will be roped in for the role but due to delay in the commencement of the shooting, she had to opt-out.
The film marks the comeback of director Bhadran, who has stayed away from filmmaking for 14 years. The last film Bhadran directed is Mohanlal's Udayon, which released in 2005.
About the role Mamta is to play in Joothan, the film’s scriptwriter S Suresh Babu said in an interview to the Times of India, “Mamta plays a leading South Indian actor in the movie. Her character has won the National Award for Best Actor (Female) twice in her career.”
The shooting of Joothan will begin in January, we hear.
Soubin Shahir has been signed up for a significant role in Joothan and Suresh Babu has revealed in the interview that his character is named Eo Eliyavu Kohen. Joju George will be seen as an IPS officer, he added.
The motion poster of Joothan had come out in March this year. It had the music of the legendary Leonard Cohen playing in the background and showed the animated picture of a baby boy resting on the horns of a cow, among mostly grayed leaves and blue fish.
Bhadran, who posted the motion poster on his Facebook page, had written: "35 years of my film career, you have become a burning candle where no storm can put off."
While Mamta is gearing up to join the sets of Joothan, she is expecting the release of Forensic, in which she shares screen space with Tovino Thomas. Wielding the megaphone for Forensic are Akhil Paul and Anas Khan and they have scripted the film as well. Navis Xaviour and Siju Mathew are producing the film under the banner Juvis Productions and Raju Malliath’s Ragam Movies.
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