After making some blockbusters in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi, South India's much-acclaimed love story teller Gautham Menon is all set to debut in Malayalam. It is reported that master director Gautham, whose mother isTamil and father is Malayalee, recently had a brief discussion with popular Malayalam comedian-turned-director Dileep about his Malayalam flick and Dileep has in principle accepted the hero's role. Reports suggest that Gautham Menon's Malayalam film will be a bilingual with music composed by A.R. Rahman, who had last composed the music of a Malayalam film years back for Mohanlal starrer Yodha. The shooting will begin rolling in a couple of months. Stay with us for more details.

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After completing ‘Orma Mathram’ with Madhu Kaithapram, and 'China Town' with Rafi Mecartin, Dileep will start working for the director Akku Akbar's new project.

This yet to be titled movie will have story and scripts by G S Anil. Produced by Arun Ghosh and Shijoy under the banner of Chandvi productions, the shooting of the movie is expected to kick start by the last week of February.

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Though Dileep is finding it hard to be amidst hits, he still has plenty of promising projects that may workout for him in the immediate future. The most promising offer that has came his way, is from popular Tamil film maker Gautham Menon.

A Malayalee by himself, Gautham has been for quite sometime trying to start off in Malayalam. Dileep who sensed his interest in doing one such project, has discussed with Gautham about the chances and the project was finalised.

This movie yet to be titled will be a bilingual, also made in Malayalam. A R Rahman will be the music director of this movie which will kick off in a couple of months.

Meanwhile Gautham's latest movie ‘Vinnaithandi Varuvaya’ is now acclaimed as a hit in Tamil Nadu and also in Kerala as well. The movie which was shot in Kerala, is continuing with its success run in select centres in the major metros. The songs by A R Rahman are also big hits among the youth.

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After a series of flop movies like Goal (2007) and Minnaminnikoottam (2008), veteran Malayalam director Kamal is back with Dileep-Charmi starrer Aagathan, which finally brings the director back on right track. Aagathan, produced by Mathew Joseph and Rafi Methar under the banner of Via Media Entertainment, has turned out to be a good entertainer for both family and youth audiences, marking the return of actress Charmi to Malayalam, after her rather unsuccessful stint in Vinayan's Kattuchembakam, and the debut of Tamil actor Sathyaraj.

Aagathan begins in a flashback mode in Kashmir where a ten year old boy Goutham loses his family in a terrorist attack. Gautham (Dileep) is now grownup and the CEO of a software company in Bangalore. On his journey to Bangalore, he meets a management student Shreya (Charmi) in the bus and strikes up a pleasant conversation with her.

Though she hates him initially, she soon falls in love with him. She takes him to their house to meet her parents Retd. Gen. Hardeendra Varma (Sathyaraj) and Malathi Thampuratti (Zareena Wahab). Everyone in the family is happy with Gautham and agrees to his marriage with Shreya. But soon, we see that Gautham has done it all deliberately to seek revenge! "Why and how" forms the rest of the film.

The first half of the film is mostly about how Gautham and Shreya fall in love. Things actually begin to happen during the second half and it is exactly when the script start losing its grip. The climax of the film has been messed up and the storyline generally moves on highly predictable lines.

Dileep has trimmed his fat and is portraying a serious character and hence the comedy component is missing. Thanks to the director, no character is added just to create comedy. Charmi looks pretty and cute, but has nothing much to do in the second half. Sathyaraj stands as the epitome of an army officer. His posture and portrayal of character is par excellence. His delivery of dialogue in climax is incomparable. The rest of the cast including Lal, Biju Menon, Innocent, Zareena Wahab and Shilpa Bala have done their parts quite well.

Cinematography by Ajayan Vincent and Ouseppachan's music are the major highlights of tge film. The film looks colourful, fresh and the locations are breathtakingly beautiful. All in all, Aagathan is entertaining enough to be worth watching.

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Ace director Kamal's Aagathan, featuring Dileep, Sathyaraj and Charmi in the lead roles, will hit screens on February 12. The release of the film was being postponed by the makers so far to avoid a clash with Dileep's earlier release Bodyguard. The audio of Aagathan was launched at Avenue Regency hotel in Kochi recently. It has music by Ouseappachan and already, the song 'Manja Mazha Kattil..' is a chart-buster. Said to be an edge of the seat thriller with a terrific twist in the end, Aagathan marks the return of actress Charmi to Malayalam, after her rather unsuccessful stint in Vinayan's Kattuchembakam. Tamil actor Sathyaraj also makes his entry into Malayalam, playing a retired soldier. Zareena Wahab plays an important role in the film. Aagathan is produced by Mathew Joseph and Rafi Methar under the banner of Via Media Entertainment. Also in the cast are Biju Menon, Lal, Innocent, Babu Namboothiri, Silpa Bala, Shamna, Aswin, Ambika Mohan and Reena Basheer. Music is by Ouseppachan, camera by Ajayan Vincent, lyrics by Kaithapram. vpost : 01

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