'Ali Bhai' to Start Rolling

Shaji Kailas' next big venture is 'Ali Bhai' with Mohanlal playing the lead role. The film, which is set to start rolling by the end of May at Calicut, will have Gopika doing the female lead. Other members of the cast include Biju Menon, Saikumar, Innocent, Rajan P Dev, Siddique, Vijayakumar, Cochin Haneefa, TG Ravi, Baburaj, Ganesh, Shammi Thilakan, Augustine, Balachandran Chullikkad, Arun, Krishna Prasad, Ottappalam Pappan, Prakash Payyanickal, Kalaranjini, KPAC Lalitha, etc.

'Ali Bhai' is being produced by Anthony Perumbavoor under the Ashirvaad Cinema banner, and will be released by Central Pictures. The script for the film is written by TA Shahid. Cinematography is by Saravanan. Alex Paul scored the music while Girish Puthencherry does the lyrics. 'Ali Bhai''s planned release is for next Onam.