Unni Mukundan to make his directorial debut through script by the maker of this Prithviraj Sukumaran thriller

Ever since Unni Mukundan completed 10 years in the industry, the actor has been bent on pushing his boundaries – be it trying his hand at songwriting and production or being more active in films outside Malayalam. Earlier this year, he had also revealed to OTTplay that he will be venturing into direction next year.

Now, in a recent interview with Kochi Times, the actor dropped more hints about his directorial debut. Unni, who was last seen in the Telugu Ravi Teja action-entertainer Khiladi, said that he was hoping to direct a script penned by Nirmal Sahadev, who made his directorial debut with Prithviraj Sukumaran’s action-thriller Ranam.

Niramal had earlier also co-written the script of Nivin Pauly and Trisha’s Hey Jude, directed by Shyamaprasad. Nirmal is currently busy with the post-production of his second directorial Kumari, which has Aishwarya Lekshmi, Giju John, Shine Tom ac

Incidentally, Unni had started out his career assisting writer-director Lohithadas before getting the opportunity to act in the Tamil remake of Nandandam titled Seedhan, which had Dhanush and Ananya. The act also worked as an associate director in Sethu’s Oru Kuttanadan Blog, which had Mammootty in the lead.

Meanwhile, Unni is riding high on the success of his debut production Meppadiyan, which recently won the Best Indian Cinema award at this year’s Bangalore International Film Festival. The movie, which is directed by Vishnu Mohan and has Unni playing the lead role of an automobile mechanic who gets caught up in a hassle due to a land deal, is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

The actor is also part of Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s upcoming movie Yashoda and has another Telugu movie lined up. He is also expected to complete shooting for Shafeekinte Santosham and director Vysakh’s Bruce Lee, before he begins work on his directorial debut.

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