Veteran
actor,
director
and
scriptwriter
Sreenivasan
will
be
presented
the
Annual
Movie
Award
for
the
best
script
writer
for
his
Katha
Parayumbol
(2007),
directed
by
M.
Mohanan.
He
was
selected
for
the
award
through
a
public
poll
conducted
in
India
and
Arabian
countries.
The
awards
will
be
given
away
on
4th
December,
2008.
Katha
Parayumbol,
indisputably
one
of
the
best
compositions
of
Sreenivasan,
is
about
a
rare
friendship,
between
a
village
barber
and
the
reigning
superstar
of
Malayalam
cinema.
Sreenivasan
appears
in
the
lead
as
Balan,
the
village
barber,
while
Mammootty
plays
superstar
Ashok
Raj.
Recently,
Katha
Parayumbol
was
simultaneously
remade
in
Tamil
as
Kuselan
and
in
Telugu
as
Kathanayakudu
with
Tamil
superstar
Rajinikanth
in
the
lead
role.
Ace
director
Priyadarshan
is
now
busy
with
the
Hindi
version
titled
Billoo
Barber
with
Irrfan
Khan
and
Shahrukh
Khan.