Geethu to direct Hindi film?
Reports insist that noted Malayalam-Tamil actress Geethu Mohandas, who is currently busy with her debut directorial venture Kelkkunnundo, a 30-minute long Malayalam short film, will soon make her debut as a full-fledged director with a Bollywood film.
Geethu's Bollywood entry will occur only after she completes Kelkkunnundo, which has entered into its post production phase after completing its entire shooting in Aluva. Scripted by Geethu herself, Kelkkunnundo revolves around a four-and-a-half year old blind girl, Ammu, played by debutante Hasna.
"It is a film on urbanisation and development. I want to ask if the so-called development that we see around us is what development is all about? Who does it benefit? These questions are all raised by my four-and-a-half-year-old blind protagonist Ammu," Geethu said, adding that she took nearly three months to write the story and script. Cinematography is by her fiancé Rajiv Ravi.
Geethu Mohandas started her film career as a child artist with the Mohanlal starrer Onnu Mudhal Poojyam Vare, for which she won the Kerala State Award for Best Child Artiste in 1986. She later came as a heroine in 2000 and won critical acclaim for her out-of-ordinary and challenging roles in Valkannadi (2002), Pakalpooram (2002), Oridam (2004), Akale (2004), Rappakal (2005), Thakarachenda (2007) and Naalu Pennungal (2007). In 2003, Geethu debuted in Tamil as a heroine opposite Madhavan with Nala Damayanthi.
