An English-Malayalam song ‘Spread Love’ from the movie Virus was released online recently. The song has musician Sushin Shyam, singer Shelton Pinheiro and actor-singer Madonna Sebastian featuring in it.
On releasing ‘Spread Love’ online, the film’s director Aashiq Abu wrote online, “Dedicating Spread Love to every single person out there who came out offering help and celebrated humanity and love to overcome all odds in life through a tough year.”
Virus went in for the censors recently and has come out with a clean U. The run time for Virus is now 150 minutes, confirm sources in the know. It is a film based on the Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala that created a big panic and killed many people last year. On Tuesday, a new case of a 23-year-old man being infected with the Nipah virus, has been confirmed by the Health Minister KK Shailaja. However, she has assured people that there is no need to panic and the state is equipped to treat any further outbreak.
The film has a notable line-up for stars in the cast including Asif Ali, Parvathy, Rima Kallingal, Soubin Shahir, Dileesh Pothan, Rahman, Indrans, Remya Nambeesan, Madonna Sebastian, Sharafudheen, Sreenath Bhasi, Revathy, Joju George, Senthil Krishna, Basil Joseph, Sudeesh and Vettukili Prakash.
The scripting for Virus has been done by Mushin Parari, Suhas and Sharfu. National Award winning cinematographer Rajeev Ravi is cranking the camera for this venture with Sushin Shyam composing the tunes and Saiju Sreedharan taking charge at the editing table. Aashiq Abu and Rima Kallingal are bankrolling Virus under the banner OPM. Reports are that its makers have done enough research to make a movie out of Nipah outbreak so that the events could be documented.
It may be noted here that the shooting of this film was wrapped up in 52 days before it went into the post-production mode. With the censor done, Virus is expected to release on June 7th.
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