After blockbuster ‘Drishyam’, stage is now set for Mohanlal and Jeethu Joseph’s second movie. The ambitious project is titled ‘Ram’. A motion poster of the movie was launched, during an official function on Monday. In the movie, Mohanlal will appear as the title character. The shooting of the film, will be commenced on January 5 and is expected to be released by Onam 2020.
‘Trisha’ will pair opposite Mohanlal in the movie. Mohanlal had suggested the name of Trisha as the female lead in the movie, the director had said. ‘Ram’ is touted to be a big budget movie to be shot in UK, Cairo, besides India. During an interaction with the media after the launch of the movie, Mohanlal said, it's time to make big budget movies, as there is a market now.
“The movies which I am doing after Lucifer, for eg, Markkar: Arabikadalinte Simham, Big Brother, Ram, Empuran and Barroz are all big budget movies. At one certain point, we will have to make big budget movies to get more audience and reach national and international levels,” Mohanlal said. “We have the possibilities and facilities now to do this,” the ace actor said.
‘Ram’ is produced by Ramesh P Pillai and Sudhan S Pillai under the banner of Abhishek Films and Passion Studios. The tagline of the movie is “He has no boundaries”. Trisha is reportedly playing the role of Mohanlal’s wife in the movie.