Alphonse Joseph helped Dev Mohan learn oud for Leo Thaddeus' gangster film Panthrand
The movie will see Dev Mohan play the role of an oud player in the movie which also stars Lal, Shine Tom Chacko and Vinayakan
Feb 07, 2022
Dev Mohan’s debut acting performance in Malayalam was in Naranipuzha Shanavas’ Sufiyum Sujatayum as a sufi scholar. The actor will mark his return in Leo Thaddeus’ upcoming gangster film titled Panthrand.
The actor essays the role of an oud player in the movie, and the director has now revealed that music composer Alphonse Joseph helped the actor with the Turkish instrument.
“Alphonse Joseph is our music director and he helped Dev with the basic training of oud. He also sent a person to keep helping Dev with the fingering of the instrument, which was helpful,” Thaddeus explained in an interview with Times of India.
The director also added that the movie is a mystical family drama laced with magical realism set in a coastal village where the twelve people in the title live, who are gangsters but are not into anything extreme.
Apart from Mohan in the lead, the movie also features Vinayakan, as the leader of the gang, Lal as a politician, Shine Tom Chacko, Srinda and Indrans.
Dev Mohan, who was last seen in a short cameo in Rojin Thomas highly successful comedy drama Home which is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
The actor is now on his way to making a name for himself across industries, by playing the lead alongside Samantha Ruth Prabhu in the highly-anticipated Telugu mythological drama Shaakuntalam.
Written and directed by Gunasekhar and produced by Neelima Guna and Dil Raju under the banner of Gunaa Teamworks and Dil Raju Productions respectively, the movie will see Mohan play the role of King Dushyanta.
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