Mohanlal's son ready for debut in Malayalam

Mohanlal (Via Wikimedia Commons)

Mohanlal will soon launch his son, Pranav, in a likely bilingual film. Although it hasn’t been officially confirmed yet, but it looks as if Mani Rathnam is likely to direct it. Jayaram too is getting ready to launch his son, Kalidas Jayaram as a grown up star. Kalidas has already won the national award as a child artiste.

Even before he makes his debut, there is already lot of pressure on Pranav. Mammootty’s son, Dulquar Salman, has already made a successful debut and is now one of the most recognized newcomers in Malayalam. Pranav will be expected to take the legendary Mollywood rivalry to Generation 2.

Mohanlal’s choice of director for his son’s debut film is slightly worrisome.

Gautham Karthik (Via Wikimedia Commons)

Two of the actors that Mani had launched in his films – Madhavan and Arvindswamy – were very aesthetically presented on the screen and they went on to have very successful careers (Arindswamy quit the industry to concentrate on his business and Madhavan is super-selective). The problem is – it has been a while since the director has had a big hit at the box office.

Gautham Karthik was a miracle of sorts – his debut movie, 'Kadal' (ocean), directed by Mani Ratnam, crashed big time, but he survived (there were rumors that an intense blame-game started between the director and the film’s story writer and that both have sworn to not work with each other again).

It’s not clear if Mohanlal has other directors in mind.