Long, long ago, when audio cassettes mimicking popular actors used to come out for Onam, there came one with Innocent’s voice asking ‘who is the new superstar’. When someone says it is Mammootty, Innocent (the voice mimicking him) says ‘manvatty alla picaasum alla’ and when someone says it’s Mohanlal, he says, ‘lal um alla oru kolum alla’.
And now the funny veteran is going to play the male lead, as a Mohanlal fan, in his newest film Suvarnapurushan, written and directed by Sunil Puveily. He will become Rapayi, a theatre operator. That’s the theatre where all Mohanlal films are played in a place where most of the villagers are Mohanlal fans. But then Rapayi has to leave on the day Mohanlal’s Pulimurugan’ releases. What happens after that in his life and in the village forms the rest of the movie. Lena plays Mary Kunju in the film where Innocent remains a bachelor.
The shooting is happening in Innocent’s hometown of Irinjalakuda.
