Director
Jayaraj's
Gulmohar
in
which
scenarist-turned-director
Ranjith
is
the
debut
hero,
playing
a
college
lecturer,
is
all
set
for
release
on
August
28.
The
first
choice
of
hero
had
been
Suresh
Gopi.
The
movie
will
portray
campus
life,
immediately
after
the
Emergency
which
ended
in
1977.
Ranjith
appears
as
an
extremist
college
lecturer
named
Induchoodan
in
this
film,
which
pans
two
different
periods
in
the
life
of
the
protagonist.
Debutante
Minu
Mathew
is
the
heroine;
Lakshmi
Gopalaswamy
plays
Induchoodan's
wife.
Also
in
the
cast
are
Mukesh,
T.G.
Ravi,
Siddique,
Jayakrishnan,
Kollam
Thulasi,
K.P.A.C.
Lalitha,
Shobha
Mohan,
Nishanth
Sagar
and
Padmakumar.
The
film
is
scripted
by
Didi
Damodaran,
daughter
of
well-known
scenarist
T.
Damodaran.
O.N.V.
Kurup
has
penned
the
lyrics,
which
have
been
set
to
tune
by
noted
music
director
Johnson.
Cinematography
is
by
M.J.
Radhakrishnan;
Manoj
does
the
editing
and
Sujith
Raghavan
is
in
charge
of
art
direction.
Produced
by
Saji
Karuveli
under
the
banner
of
Orient
Films,
Gulmohar
is
likely
to
be
a
venture
that
stands
somewhere
between
an
'art'
and
a
'commercial'
movie,
like
many
of
Jayaraj's
earlier
movies.