Shwetha Menon who refused the lead role in the remake of I.V. Sasi’s 1978 classic Avalude ravukal, has agreed to star in the remake of legendary filmmakers Padmarajan-Bharathan’s classic Rathi Nirvedam (1978).

The original, starring Jayabharathi and Krishnachandran in the lead, will be remade in Malayalam by veteran producer Suresh Kumar. Shwetha will don Jayabharathi’s role. Shwetha refused Avalude ravukal, as its makers announced her name without her consent. The Rathi Nirvedam remake will be directed by T.K. Rajeev Kumar and the shoot will start in Nilambur.

Malayalam director Sibi Malayil, is now back once again with yet another love story Violin, starring his Apoorvaragam pair Asif Ali and Nithya Menon in the lead.

Violin was launched recently in Avenue Centre Hotel|, Kochi in the presence of director Joshi and producer Sabu Cheriyan. Scripted by Viju Ramachandran of Kayam fame, the film is produced by AOPL Private Limited.

Debutant director Sohan Seenulal’s movie titled ‘Doubles’will have Mammootty and Nadiya Moidhu as lead roles.Mumbai model Tapsee will be Mammootty’s heroine. Nadiya Moidhu is making a comeback to Malayalam, playing as Mammootty’s twin sister ‘Gowri’ in the movie.It is after a gap of more than twenty years that Mammootty is joining Nadiya for a movie.

Scheduled to be shot at Goa and Pondicherry, the movie will have interesting narratives by Sachi- Sethu.’Subrahmaniapuram’ fame James Vasanthan will debut into Malayalam as the music director with this movie while P Sukumar will handle the camera section.

‘Doubles’ produced by K K Narayanadas in the banner of ‘Dreams on Wheels’ will reach the theatres as a late January release.

Prithviraj will replay the role Jeevan played by Mohanlal in the remake of the 1989 film ‘Season’, written and directed by the late P. Padmarajan.Padmarajan’s realistic story-telling style also came for praises during those time.
The movie portrayed the of drug mafia in the beaches of Kovalam. Mohanlal played an innocent trader selling foreign goods in the beaches. He is falsely framed for three murders, including that of his two friends who is actually killed by the drug mafia.