Actress Shobana recently made a comeback, to the Malayalam industry with the family entertainer ‘Varane Avashyamund’ which was directed by Anoop Sathyan. The movie brought together Shobana and Suresh Gopi after a gap of 14 years and was a huge hit at the box office. While the actress is yet to sign any new movie, it has been rumored that Shobana is part of Mammootty's next CBI 5 directed by K. Madhu.

The speculations began doing the rounds after Shobana visited the sets of Mammootty's CBI5 and shared a picture with the Megastar. Taking to her social media handle, Shobana shared the picture with the caption,"VerifiedVisited the captain. Fan moment!@mammootty". The picture has been flooded with comments from fans asking when will the duo will be doing a film together.As you know, Mammootty- Shobana, the stunning combo has never failed in delivering memorable performances in the past with the films ‘Mazhayethum Munpe, ‘Kshamichu Ennoru Vakku’, ‘Ee Thanalil Ithiri Neram’, ‘Adayalam’ among many others.

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 to date. The franchise also stars Mukesh, 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. The character DYSP Vikram played by Jagathy Sreekumar too will be appearing in the upcoming film!

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