Mammootty's new kannada movie : Shikari

Malayalam mega star Mammootty has begun acting on his second film in Sandalwood after Love(2005). The shooting for Shikari began last week. Mammootty flew to Bangalore straight after his holiday in the US.The film is being directed by young award winning director Abhay Simha. Mammootty plays the role of an IT professional who finds a half-written novel set in the pre-independence era. The novel is about a hunter and a village girl. What makes the story more interesting is that Mammootty also plays the central character (the hunter) in the novel. The heroine is yet to be finalized.It will be a treat for Kannada audiences to watch Mammootty in action. Mammootty has earlier spoken Kannada dialogues for the Malayalam film Vidheyan (The Servile) directed by Adoor Gopalakrishanan.

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The latest update regarding the movie is that Mammootty has come forward to pen dialogues for the movie. According to the producer, Mammootty was so much impressed with the strong script that provoked him to pen the dialogues himself. Also it is herd that Konkana is to play the female lead in this bilingual flick. Malayali actors including Salimkumar, Suraj Venjaramoodu and Nedumudi Venu will also be a part of the Malayalam version which will be presented to Kerala audience in a different name.