
Santosh Sivan to play Raja Ravi Varma opposite South sensation Karthika
November 5th, 2009 admin
Even as the fate of Ketan Mehta’s Rang Rasiya, featuring Randeep Hooda as the father of mythological calendar-art Raja Ravi Varma and Nandana Sen as his muse, remains uncertain, cinematographer-director Santosh Sivan has very quietly gone and ahead and signed a Malayalam film (to be dubbed into Hindi and English) featuring himself as Raja Ravi Varma in the lead. The Malayalam film entitled Magara Manju (winter mist) starts shooting next week Cochin. It’s to be directed by…
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