Film eyes record with 10-hour shoot

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 17 (IANS) National Award winning director Jayaraj is all set to enter the Guinness Book of World Records Sunday by shooting a full length film in less than 10 hours.

The film titled "Atbhutham" is a bilingual to be made in Malayalam and English and would be shot at the Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad. Starring another National Award winning personality, Suresh Gopi, it deals with the theme of euthanasia.

The story unfolds in Oregon in the US that has legalised euthanasia.

Subhash Gopi, the brother of Suresh Gopi, told IANS that the film would be shot Sunday and for the past four days rehearsals had been on in Hyderabad.

"Suresh called me up just now and said there have been meetings after meetings ahead of the actual shooting that would begin tomorrow morning and end tomorrow itself," Subhash said.

The total length of the film will be 78 minutes because for it to be categorised under the feature film section, it has to have a minimum duration of 72 minutes.

Reports indicate the film is on a character (played by Gopi) who has been in the US for a long time and suffers from cancer. He demands mercy killing and in this he is helped by his Malayali wife who is also his attorney.

Jayaraj as a director is known to go off the beaten track. The film is being produced by his own production company, Harvest Dreams.