Amazon Prime Video gets releasing rights for Mohanlal’s Drishyam 2

The sequel of the highly anticipated Malayalam thriller Drishyam, Drishyam 2 will be released on Amazon Prime Video. The news was announced by Mohanlal through his social media page. He also released the teaser of the film which is expected to hit the screen soon.

“Georgekutty and his family are coming soon on Amazon Prime Video,” Mohanlal wrote sharing the teaser.

The teaser shows Georgekutty, the character played by Mohanlal, delivering a dialogue to a police officer from the previous film. “I have never seen police officers as fools. Rather I see them as protectors of people. That is why I believe that sir and this police station will protect me,” he is seen saying.

The teaser hints that the sequel will also be as gripping as the first movie. “Some secrets are meant to stay hidden forever. But there are no secrets that time does not reveal,” are the words that appear in the teaser, in the background of the chilling background score. Glimpses of Mohanlal, Meena, Ansiba and Esther, the main cast of the sequel, also appear in the teaser.

The movie, directed by Jeethu Joseph and produced by Antony Perumbavoor, was a blockbuster hit. It has been remade into Hindi, Tamil.

The movie is centered on a family four. The elder daughter accidentally kills a man, who harassed her. The rest of the film shows how the family deals with the murder. Jeethu Joseph said that Drishyam 2 will also be a family drama like the prequel. Drishyam 2 is one among the few films that started shooting soon after Kerala government started easing lockdown in the state.