After a gap of five years, director Nizar is back to filmdom with a Kalabhavan Mani starrer 'Makkoli Mani'.

The film will also feature Malavika, Jagathy, Innocent, Vijayaraghavan, Sai Kumar, Rajan P Dev, Riyas Khan and Salim Kumar. The flick in the scripts of Rajesh Puthen Purakkal will start shoot by the end of this December.

Nizar, who debuted through 'Sudhinam' in the early nineties, directed more than 30 films in a period of ten years. He even created records by directing six films in a year.

His low budgeted movies with Dileep and Mukesh always made the producers happy. But as the Golden Era of small budget films came to an end by early 2000.

Nizar shifted his area of operation to mini screen where he made considerable success with tele films and now with his return to film making, the question is whether he can bring back the good times of small films?