Mohanlal and Allu Sirish are teaming up for the war drama 1971: Beyond Borders, which has been directed by Major Ravi. Both the Malayalam as well as the Telugu versions of this flick will be out at the theatres on April 7, ahead of Vishu, confirm the film crew. The Telugu version has been titled 1971: Bharatha Sarihaddu and the first look poster which was released recently created a huge buzz.
While Mohanlal will be appearing in dual roles - Colonel Mahadevan and Major Sahadevan – Allu Sirish will be seen as Lieutenant Chinmay. The film also has Arunoday Singh, Asha Sarath, Renji Panicker, Sudheer Karamana, Saiju Kurup, Priyanka Agrawal, Srushti Dange and Padmaraj Ratheesh.
Haneef Mohammed has produced 1971: Beyond Borders under the banner Red Rose Creations. Music for the venture has been scored by Siddharth Vipin, Najim Arshad, Rahul Subramanian and Gopi Sunder. Sujith Vassudev has cranked the camera and Samjith MHD has edited the film.
With this film, Allu Sirish will be entering the Malayalam film industry after debuting in Tamil and Telugu with Gouravam in 2013. His last outing was Srirastu Subhamastu, which did good business at the box office.
(Content provided by Digital Native)