Daddy Cool
After a band of movies that didn't do any good to his stardom, Mammootty is finally back to pleasing his family audiences. His latest in this line is `Daddy Cool' a hilarious family flick, directed by the debutante Aashiq Abu.
Mammootty plays the role of Antony Simon, a Crime Branch Circle inspector in the movie, a cop quite different from every others that the star had done in the previous years. Though a brilliant officer while on work, he prefers to free himselves from official duties to spend time with his eight year old cricket crazy son. Following his son, the father also catches cricket fever to such an extent that Antony often listens to cricket commentary while on duty by converting his wireless into a radio. Like most children of his age, Adi, Antony's son also sees his father as a super hero. But Antony's wife, Annie is however irked and dejected by the growing laziness of her husband who was a meticulous officer during his younger days.
According to Antony, he feels that his world has changed since he turned a father to ever mischievous Aadi. He loses interest in his pressure filled work schedules and earmarks all his attention on his only son.
The adventures and attitudes of this father and son who share a heavy bond between themselves, makes a sea change after a chance encounter with a cricketer named Sreekanth, the first Malayalee to cement his place in the national cricket team. The movie goes on to tell how his friendship with the father and son, who are big fans of the cricketer changes the lives of both.
The movie which is being shot at Kochi and nearby places is cinematographed by Samir Thahir, who hit big time with his work for the movie `Big B'. Debutante director Aashiq Abu who was a former assistant to Kamal, also scripts for the movie. Richa Pallod, the model and heroine of movies like Shajahan appear as Annie in the movie. Master Dhananjay dons the role of Aadi while Govind Padmasuriya, the hero of Adayalangal is cricketer Sreekanth. Also in the cast area Bijumenon, Ashish Vidyarthy, Vijayaraghavan, Raadhika and Saikumar.
`Daddy Cool' will feature songs by Biji Bal in the lyrics of Santhosh Varma, Anil Panachooran and Venugopal, Produced by Ananya films in association with Marikar films, `Daddy Cool' will be ready for release by this July.