InterviewThe film has Suraj Venjaramoodu playing an 80-year-old while Soubin plays his son who works abroad.CrisDirector Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval doesn't use his native dialect when he speaks on the phone. He's from Payannur village of Kannur district, where he set his first ever film -- Android Kunjappan Ver 5.25 which released last Friday in Kerala. The film has a Thiruvananthapuram-based Suraj Venjaramoodu and a Kochi-based Soubin Shahir speaking the Kannur dialect. The film has been getting good reviews and Ratheesh is one happy director. “I tone down my Kannur slang when I speak to others so they understand. For the movie, I thought Suraj’s character might need a Thiruvananthapuram background to explain his accent but he spoke the Kannur dialect so well that it was not needed,” says Ratheesh. It is Soubin whom Ratheesh first cast in the movie – the son who has to leave his elderly father when...
- 11/12/2019
- by Cris
- The News Minute
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