Mammootty to do 'Shikari'; Mohanlal gets ready for 'Shikar'

Mammootty is all set to star in a double role once again in 'Shikari', a Kannada film to be directed by Abhay Sinha. Mammootty would play a software engineer and a freedom fighter in the film.

The shooting of the film would start at the beginning of May in Bangalore.With this the director's longtime wish to have Mammootty playing the lead in his film would come true.

'Shikari' would be Mammootty's first Kannada film, and would be produced by one of the veteran producers of Kannada cinema, K Manju.

Meanwhile, the other superstar of Malayalam films is planning to start the shoot of his film 'Shikar' that would be directed by Padmakumar. Mohanlal would play a lorry driver by the name of Balaraman in the film. Ananya would appear as his daughter in the film.

Suraja Venjarammoodu, Lekshmi Gopalaswami and Jagathy Sreekumar would also appear in 'Shikar'. The search for a heroine for the film that has been scripted by Suresh Babu is still on.

The film would be shot at Adimali, Idukki, Thoothukkudi and Hyderabad. 'Shikar' would be Mohanlal's next major project this year.

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