Pathinettam Padi: Mammootty to play an extended cameo in Shankar Ramakrishnan’s directorial debut
Popular screenwriter and actor Shankar Ramakrishnan is all set to start his maiden directorial venture. Reports say that Kalidas Jayaram will play the lead in it along with some new faces and the film has been titled as Pathinettam Padi. August Cinema will bankroll this project and the latest addition to the star cast of this movie was none other than Mega Star Mammootty.
Mammootty will play an extended cameo in this movie and he will be playing a character named John Abraham Palackal. Shankar Ramakrishnan had scripted this movie and as per reports, Mammootty will have 25 minutes of screen space in this flick and his character will be an Ex- Military officer.
Unconfirmed reports also suggest that along with Mammootty, Tovino Thomas and Prithviraj Sukumaran will also make guest appearances in this film. More details of this film are yet to come. Big auditions have been held to select the new faces for this film and the title font of this flick has been unveiled by Complete Actor Mohanlal.
Some reports suggest that Pathinettam Padi will be an action thriller and Prithviraj will have a high octane action sequence in this movie. Shankar Ramakrishnan had written the screenplay of My Story starred by Prithviraj and directed by Roshni Dinakar this year.