Shaji Karuns Mammootty film Kutty Srank will release on July 23. This is Mammoottys first film with Shaji,who began his career as a cinematographer and later turned to direction with Piravi in 1988. Shaji N Karuns directorial debut won him the prestigious Camera dOr – Mention dhonneur at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989.
Kutty Srank has already been screened at Pusan International Film Festival,Montreal World Film Festival,Mumbai Film Festival and the International Film Festival of India last year.
Commenting on the release,director Shaji N Karun says,Kutty Srank is a movie layered with several emotions and shades,which could only be brought to life by an actor par excellence such as Mammootty. It has been a creative and self-innovating journey and hopefully be appreciated and understood by movie lovers all over the globe.
Kutty Srank,scripted by Shaji,P F Mathews and Hari Krishnan (screenplay),has noted actor and thrice National Award winner Mammootty playing the male lead. The film also stars popular actresses Padmapriya,Kamalini and Meena Kumari in female leads. The films music has been composed by Isaac Thomas.
This is also the very first Malayalam film to be shot by a female cinematographer Anjuli Shukla,who has previously worked on films like Tahaanand Prarambh as First Camera Assistant. She was also assistant to the award-winning and highly-acclaimed Santosh Sivan for several years.
Kutty Srank (Sailor Of Hearts) is about an unidentified body found by the police on a beach. Three women turn up,each claiming it as her Kutty Srank. One is a wealthy woman who wants to become a Buddhist nun. The second is a woman who acts in a traditional Christian play with Kutty Srank and is later accused of murder. The third is a gentle,mute woman who,it appears,is carrying Kutty Sranks baby, the director said.
Reliance BIG Pictures will distribute the movie.