Helen , the Malyalam film that won the national award for best debut film maker is currently directing the Hindi remake with Janhvi Kapoor playing Anna Ben's role. It was remade in Tamil as Anbirkiniyal i with Keerthi Pandian essaying the central role and Gokul directing it while the Hindi remake is directed by Mathykutty who directed the original . The Hindi film is titled `Milli" ( remember Jaya Bahaduri / Bachchan) and shooting has been wrapped up. Mathukutty said that his next will be a film produced by him and Helen script writer Alfred Kurian Joseph will be directing it. Kadaisi Biryani fame cameraman Nishanth will be cranking the camera.
He said that the offer to remake Helen first came from Arun Pandian who wanted to make some changes to the script. Xavier was not willing to allow it. At that time Lizzy Priyadarshan and Vineeth Srinivasan spoke to him and said that Boney Kapoor wanted to remake it as it was in Hindi. He agreed and Ritesh Shah ( Pink - Airlift) wrote the screenplay.
Mathukutty asked Janhvi to not take Anna Ben performance as a reference and emote the way she would. Manoj Pahwa who seen in comic roles will play Lal's role in Hindi and it is a serious character..
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