Banner : Big Motion Pictures
Written by : P.F Mathews, Shaji N. Karun
Screenplay, cinematography and direction : Shaji.N.Karun
Produced by : Reliance Entertainments
Music Director : Isaac Thomas Kottukapally
Cinematography : Anjali Shukla
Cast : Mammootty, Kamalini Mukherji, Padmapriya, Meenakumari, Sai Kumar, Siddique, Suresh Krishna
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Shaji N. Karun’s latest film ‘Kutty Shranku’ is a mosaic of reminiscences that depict the portrait of a man as seen through the eyes of three women who knew him during various phases of his life. Their reminiscences give the viewers a picture of his personality and character. Mammooty is featured in the lead role.
This is the first time that Mammooty is joining hands with the award winning director Shaji.N.Karun. Shaji began his career as a cinematographer and later turned to direction, with his first film Piravi, released in 1989 winning him the prestigious Camera d’Or-Mention d’honneur at the Cannes Film Festival. Since then, every film of Shaji has attracted international attention.
In the movie Mammooty plays the role of a boat driver called “Shrank”. The film is being narrated in the form of magical realism, a space where fact and fiction merge to create its own world.
No one have any clues about Srank the character, his origins or his religion. He speaks in a peculiar Kochi slang and the story develops in Malabar, Kochi and Travancore. The story takes place around the time that Ambedkar chose to turn to Buddhism in the 1950s.
The film is on the perspectives of three women and their memories of the Srank. Three women have been presented in the backdrop of three different seasons. Kamalini Mukerjee, who was first introduced in the song Partha Mudhalnaale from the movie Vettayadu Vilayadu, became a sensation in Tamil movie. She then got offers from many Telugu movies.
Through a twist in the movie Mammooty faces death and all the 3 women become widows. It is only then that they come to know each other and their relationship with Srank.
It was a challenge for Mammooty because the basic nature of all the three characters portrayed by him is same but there are different behavioral patterns and mannerisms based on what the three women says.
P.F. Mathews has written screenplay of the film. Another woman in the Srank’s life is Revamma played by Padmapriya, whom he meets during his life on the Malabar Coast.
As the film is through the views of women, Shaji chose a woman cameraman Anjali, as there is evidently difference in the way a man and a woman would visualize things. Anjali has been working with acclaimed cinematographer Santosh Sivan. She is, perhaps, the first woman to wield the camera for a feature film in Malayalam.
The fight sequences will be staged by a Japanese firm that handles the action sequences for Jackie Chan films.
Isaac Thomas Kottukappilly composes the music of the film. Mammooty will be singing a song for this movie.
It is scheduled for an international premier in this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Kutti Srank will also mark the maiden entry of Reliance Big Entertainment one of the biggest production houses in India into the Malayalam film industry.
The filming and post-production work of the film has been completed and is awaiting theatrical release.
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