Nivin Pauly shared the news in his social media handles.

Thank you @nyindianff 😍😍😍#Moothon ❤️ @geetumohandas @anuragkashyap72 @iamSanjanaDipu @roshanmathew22 @sobhitaD @vinod_offl @ShashankSArora pic.twitter.com/lgvjWllBAL

— Nivin Pauly (@NivinOfficial) August 3, 2020

The film tells the story of a clever orphan boy, whose life takes an unexpected turn when he decides to set out in search of his elder brother who ran away to Mumbai.

Featuring a bilingual narrative in Malayalam and Hindi, this powerful film has been written and directed by Geetu Mohandas and filmmaker Anurag Kashyap wrote the Hindi dialogues.

Meanwhile this is Geetu’s third project as a filmmaker and first full-length film as a dialogue writer. The movie stars Nivin Pauly in the lead with Sobhita Dhulipala, Roshan Mathew, Shashank Arora, Harish Khanna and Omkaar in supporting roles.

Garggi Ananthan won the Best Actress award for the film Run Kalyani Run. Directed by Geetha, this movie tells the tale of a young woman who works as a cook and lives with her ailing aunt.

NYIFF began from July 24 and ended on August 2. The fest screened feature and non-feature films in various Indian languages including Assamese, Bengali, Haryanvi, Hindi, English, Ladakhi, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali and Tamil.

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Titled as ‘Bismi Special’, this movie is directed by newbie Rajesh Ravi and produced by Sophia Paul’s Weekend Blockbuster.

Aishwarya Lekshmi will be collaborating again with the actor after ‘Njandukalude Naattil Oru Idavela, which was Aishwarya’s debut film in 2017. Nivin Pauly shared the news through his social media.

Congratulating the actor, the makers said, “On this special day, Weekend Blockbusters is happy to announce our 6th production, titled Bismi Special with Nivin Pauly and Aishwarya Lekshmi in the lead, produced by Sophia Paul.”

Rajesh Ravi will be directing from a script he co-wrote with Rahul Ramesh and Sanu Majeed. Sanu Varghese of ‘Android Kunjappan’ fame is on board as director of photography while Shafique Mohammad Ali will handle the editing. Kumbalangi Nights-fame Sushin Shyam will be composing the music.

‘Gangster of Mundanmala’ is Nivin’s third production venture and is directed by newcomer Ronnie Manuel Joseph. The movie is going to be a joint production venture between Pauly Jr Pictures and Ravi Mathew Productions. The rest of the cast is yet to be revealed.

The script of the film is written by Aneesh Rajasekharan and Ronnie Manuel Joseph. Justin Varghese will compose the music for the movie.

Thuramukham with Rajeev Ravi

After collaborating with Geethu Mohandas for ‘Moothoon’, which garnered wide appreciation from the audience and film festival circuit across the world, Nivin Pauly joined with Rajeev Ravi for a period movie, titled, ‘Thuramukham’.

Rajeev Ravi is the director of critically acclaimed movies like ‘Annayum Rasoolum’, ‘Njan Steve Lopez’ and ‘Kammattipadam’. The filmmaker also pens the script for ‘Thuramukham’. The cast of the movie include Biju Menon, Indrajith Sukumaran, Nimisha Sajayan and Arjun Ashokan.

The film’s premise is about the famous protest against the ‘chappa’ system that was practiced in the Cochin harbour during the 1950s. As per the history, the despicable chappa system is a custom where copper coins were thrown to waiting workers which had resulted in police firing and three labourers in Mattancherry succumbed to the injuries.

Nivin said that ‘Thuramukham’ is going to be a totally different film like Moothon and it will be a classic, leaving a mark in Malayalam cinema history.

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The controversy started after Ms.Xavior posted on her Facebook that a prominent member of the Women in Cinema Collective(WCC) had denied her payment. She neither mentioned the name of Ms. Mohandas nor the film. The allegation was made soon after director Vidhu Vincent made public her letter resigning from WCC.

In her statement, Geetu Mohandas said that the costume designer’s statement was absolutely false. She said that the costume design for the entire film was done by Maxima Basu and that Ms.Xavior was engaged for a small portion when the former had gone on maternity leave. However, due to creative differences, the filmmaker decided not to seek Ms.Xavior’s assistance.

She also stressed that women’s lynching women is not okay. The filmmaker concluded the post saying that she has no intention of hurting Stephy Xàvior. “So kindly observe that this is exactly what we should not be doing to each other. Women lynching women. If my actions have hurt you I am still ready to meet you for a conversation. I wish you all the best. A special request to all my closest industry friends – Please do not share this post in solidarity with me because we must collectively put an end to this virtual mob mentality and alienating people! I trust this post will resound to the right eyes and ears,” she said.

Here is costume designer Stephy Xavior post on the allegations:

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