After giving back to back super hits in 'To Harihar Nagar' and 'In Ghost House Inn', producer-director Lal is all set to make a hatrick with his new movie titled as `Tournament'. This is the ace producer's first directorial attempt without the `Harihar Nagar' team. This time Lal will get to theatres with a bunch of new comers in the lead roles.

The movie will tell the story of a group of seven people, six guys Viswam, Usman, Balu, Bobby, Chilambu and Subu and their common friend Lakshmi, who embark on a tour to Bangalore to watch a cricket match. They miss their flight from Kochi and reschedule their journey a little adventurously on road. They take difficult routes via forests tracks and goes on for a much different fate than they ever expected.

Fahad Fazil, Praveen, Manu, John, Aryan, Prajan are the lead players of the movie, supported by Salimkumar, Indrans, Sreelatha and Kochupreman. Roopa Manjari who plays the heroine Lakshmi, had debuted in Tamil film `Thiru Thiru Thuru Thuru' opposite Ajmal.

Vayalar Sarath has penned the lyrics and the songs composed by Deepak Dev are already chart toppers Venu has wielded the camera, while V Saajan does the editing.

Scripted by the director, 'Tournament' has been produced by P N Venugopal and Lal under the banners of PNV Associates and Lal Productions.

And for 'Tournament', the first road movie in Mollywood, Lal has gone for an innovative promotion campaign. Lal is aiming to attract more of young viewers to watch his youth movie. As there is more than one route to reach Bangalore, the campaign is set as a game where the players of the game have to predict the route through which the tournament characters had gone to Bangalore.