Megastar Mammootty has joined the sets of CBI 5, the fifth installment in the CBI films series. Mammukka will be making his return as Sethurama Iyer in this much awaited film that is helmed by K Madhu. A day ago, the superstar had shared a video of him joining the team and his entry is just as royal and mass as ever. The video has the iconic CBI theme music played in the background and fans couldn't stop going gaga over it. While the iconic CBI theme was composed by Shyam, for the upcoming part, the theme will be done by the music composer Jakes Bejoy.

Tentatively titled as ‘CBI-5’, the movie's script is penned by SN Swamy who had revealed that the ‘CBI’ film will revolve around ‘basket killing’. The first CBI film, 'Oru CBI Diary Kurippu', was released in 1988 and it was immediately followed by a sequel, 'Jagratha', in 1989. Mammootty's lead character Sethurama Iyer, a brilliant investigative officer, is one of his career-best characters. As both the movies were super hits, the makers, after a gap of 15 years, did the third part of the movie, 'Sethurama Iyer CBI' in 2004, and a fourth part, 'Nerariyan CBI', in 2005. However, the third and fourth were an average hit at the box-office. All the four films were helmed by K Madhu and scripted by SN Swamy, who promised that the fifth installment will be one of the best ever thrillers that Malayalam cinema has produced till date.

The franchise’s regular actors Mammootty and Mukesh will play the lead roles in the upcoming movie too along with Renji Panicker, Soubin Shahir, Asha Sharath, Sai Kumar, and many others. It is said that the movie will have new-age elements in it, however, Mammootty's character styling, mannerism, etc will remain the same

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