Dubai-based Indian businessman BR Shetty had announced a 1000 crore ambitious project Randamoozham. But, the project soon landed up in a controversy due to differences between director Sreekumar menon and script writer MT Vasudevan Nair. Popular star Mohanlal was supposed to play the hero Bheema in this epic multi-lingual movie based on MT Vasudevan Nair's award winning best selling novel Randamoozham.

As per latest updates, BR Shetty is walking out of the project. He added that he is still optimistic about making a movie on Mahabharata and looking for a good script. He cited the issues faced by makers of period movie Patmaavat if he decides to make the film in other languages.

Randamoozham faced major setback when MT Vasudevan Nair approahed court to return its script saying that the director had failed to produce the film with in the time frame mentioned in the contract.