Ramzan 2007 Preview: Nasrani

When this movie was announced with Kavya Madhavan as Mammotty’s heroine we were really excited, for in his 26 year career Kavya was never Mammootty’s heroine. We were later disappointed, for Kavya walked out of the movie, citing “the other woman” as the reason. As they say, the show has go to on and how hard is it to find young heroines now a days?. So Mukta along with Vimala Raman play the heroines in this Joshi film.

For the past 11 years, Mammotty had an Onam release and this time they were trying hard to make this film Mammotty’s Onam release. There was only one problem though: the movie was not filmed completely and there were only few weeks left. So two camera crews worked around the clock tried to make this happen, at least on Thiru Onam day, so that Mahabali would not be disappointed. Since Nasrani didn’t make it for Onam Sadya, Ore Kadal got more eye balls than it would have got normally.

Scripted and directed by Ranjith and Joshiy respectively, Nasrani zooms in on the life of a rich planter, David John Kottaram, whose luxurious life style is turned topsy turvy when his beloved ones are affected by certain incidents.Mammootty, whose last release, Mission 90 Days got mixed response from the audience, is all too keen to come out with another whopper. [Mammootty's Nasrani]

Joshi is a director who once rescued Mammotty from 3Bs: Benz, Briefcase, Baby Shalini, and gave him a new life with New Delhi. Moreover, one of the first ‘Achayan’ avatars by Mammootty was in Joshi’s Sangham. If anyone knows about the DNA of larger than life characters it is Ranjith. Both these people along with Mammotty form an explosive combination. Even though the story thread looks similar to Big B, the key will be narration.

Like Mammootty and his fans, we were also eager see to Nasrani released, especially to see if it would match Alibhai’s performance.