After nearly three decades, veteran Bollywood actor Om Puri is all set to make a comeback in Malayalam films with a horror thriller.
The 65-year-old actor will star in Aadu Puli Attam, directed by Kannan Thamarakulam.
The Ardh Satya actor will play the role of a mystic scientist, who carries out research on soul and incarnations.
According to the director, Puri is perfect for the role. “Only very few actors in Indian cinema might have enacted the wide range of characters played by Om Puri. We hope that the character in Aadu Puli Attam will be a special one in his career,” he said.
“Through Dr Maheswara Yogi [Puri’s character], the film, which has a mythical touch, goes to the past from the present. An actor with high range and calibre can only play such an in-depth character,” he said.
The first schedule of the shooting of the movie will begin tomorrow in Thodupuzha.
Puri is expected to join the crew in the second schedule, which will be shot in Palani in Tamil Nadu during January.
The movie, which revolves around a centuries-old myth, will also star Jayaram, Jewel Marry and South Indian actress Ramya Krishnan, and is expected to be released by mid 2016.
The last Malayalam film Puri worked in was Lenin Rajendran’s Puravrutham (1988).
