Remember the last time Mohanlal appeared in a Telugu film? It was way back in 1994, in a cameo song for his close friend Priyadarshan’s film Gandeevam, featuring the late legendary actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao. Mohanlal played a boat man in the film,
Over two decades later, the Drishyam star will be seen as a cop in the upcoming Telugu film, Nuvve Na Pranamani, featuring a host of debutants. The film will be directed by Suresh Vamshi and produced by Vishwanath ES.
Mohanlal sir will be essaying a very important role of a police officer. He agreed to do the film because he fell in love with his character when I narrated the story.
– Suresh Vamshi, Film Director
It will be another cameo but the director assures it won’t be a blink-and-you-miss kind of role. In the past, filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma tried to rope in Mohanlal in several of his Telugu films but the duo never came together after Company and Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag. This is Lal’s third film in southern languages apart from Malayalam in the last two years after Jilla with Tamil superstar Vijay and the critically acclaimed Kannada sleeper hit, Mythri.