Debut director Ashiq Abu will direct megastar Mammootty in the latest movie titled, `Daddy Cool'.

Scheduled to start by the opening months of next year, the movie will tell a story about the bond of a father, a police official, and his only son who is in love with cricket.

Mammootty plays the 26th character as a police officer through his film which will have him as Antony Simon, an officer working with the Crime Branch.

Indrajith and Kalabhavan Mani are also cast in important roles of this movie. Anil Panachooran - Biji Lal team will again come together to set the songs for the movie. The producer Alwin Antony and the director Aasiq Abu are in the lookout for an energetic Child artist, to don the character of the son in the movie.

Meanwhile, the crew of Mammootty’s ‘Patttanathil Bhootham’ is also into vigorous screen tests to finalize a number of child artists, who will play the friends of the character played by Mammootty in the film.

Mammootty is jimmy who specializes in bike circus in ‘Pattanathil Bhootham'. The movie goes on to tell how he accidentally gets some supernatural powers and extra sensory perceptions which make him perform some daredevil acts and fight the baddies of the society.