Kutty Sranku to be premiered in Montreal

Finally Mammootty's prestigious Kutty Sranku, directed by the internationaly reputed Malayalam director Shaji.N Karun is being premierd at the 2009 - Montreal International Film Festival to be held between August 27 to September 7.

Kutty Sranku will have its first offical screening at the "Great Film Section" of the festival, where Woody Allen and noted Iranian director Majidi Majidi's new films are also going to be shown. The film is produced by Anil Ambani's Reliance Big Pictures.

The film is set in the late 50's and Mammootty plays a boat driver who runs a cargo service and during the course of his journey meets three women in three different islands in the backwaters of Kerala- Kamaleene Mukerjee, Meena Kumari and Padmapriya and his relationship with them.

The film has a camerawoman in Anjali Shukla, a former Santosh Sivan assisstant who is debuting as a cinematographer with the film.

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Banner : Big Motion Pictures
Written by : P.F Mathews, Shaji N. Karun
Screenplay, cinematography and direction : Shaji.N.Karun
Produced by : Reliance Entertainments
Music Director : Isaac Thomas Kottukapally
Cinematography : Anjali Shukla

Cast : Mammootty, Kamalini Mukherji, Padmapriya, Meenakumari, Sai Kumar, Siddique, Suresh Krishna

Kutty Shranku, the movie which will show megastar Mammootty in three different characters (not three different roles). Mammootty does the role of a mariner who operates a cargo vessel between the sea port of Kodungaloor near Kochi and Kollam, once roaring port towns in Kerala.

Kutty Shranku produced by Reliance Entertainment, Anil Ambani's newly-launched entertainment company, has three heroines opposite Mammootty. Kamalini Mukherjee, Padmapriya, and Meenakumari.

Mammootty's character 'Kutty' marries these three women in the three islands he visits, with out any of them knowing each other. They meet each other for the first time after the death of the protagonist. Kamalinee Mukherjee does the role of Pemmena from Kochi, Padmapriya acts as Revamma from Malabar, and Meenakumari as Kali from Travancore. The story is told from the eyes of the three heroines after the death of Kutty.

Mammootty sings a Chavaittu Natakam based song for this movie 'Kuttyshranku'. The movie is based on three climatic seasons and shot in three schedules. Mammootty appeared in a different get up for each of the schedules.

The first schedule was based on rainy monsoon days and was shot in the backwaters of Alappuzha during the rainy season in June, 2008. The shooting for the second schedule based summer season took place at Chavara and Sasthankotta near Kollam, during September 2008 and the final schedule depicting winter was shot in December 2008 at Kundapura near Mookambika.

The story of the movie develops in 1950s when there were no much developments in the road transport and people depends much on the waterways for transportation. The movie gives great importance to the ancient art forms of Kerala like 'Chavittunatakam' (a Christian dance form).

The movie is directed by the renowned director Shaji N. Karun. The filming and post-production work of the film has been completed and is awaiting theatrical release.