After an interesting announcement about the debut of popular director Gautham Vasudeva Menon into Malayalam industry, Recently Mammootty started shooting for his new film with director Gautham Menon. Reports suggest that the actor plays a private detective in this film, a comedy investigation thriller.
Sharing more details about Mammootty's role and the project's inception, writers of the film revealed that Mammukka plays a fun-filled character on the lines of Sherlock Holmes. Whe the idea was pitched to Gautham Menon, he felt it would suit Mammukka perfectly and things soon fell in place.
Neeraj is scripting this yet-to-be-titled film along with his brother Sooraj. The duo had earlier co-written ABCD (2013) and worked on the additional screenplay of Iratta (2023). The upcoming film, which marks Gautham's directorial debut in Malayalam, is backed by MammoottyKampany.
It also stars Gokul Suresh, Lena, Siddique, Vijay Babu and Viji Venkatesh. On the technical front, Gautham has retained his previous collaborators, including his regular editor Anthony, cinematographer Vishnu Dev, one of the DOPs of Dhruva Natchathiram, and composer Darbuka Siva, known for his work in the director's 2019 film Enai Noki Paayum Thota.