As reported earlier, Mohanlal has joined the sets of Drishyam 3 in late September. The Jeethu Joseph film, produced by Aashirwad Cinemas, will be the final conclusion to the blockbuster movie series. “Bringing Georgekutty’s world alive once again…Today marks the beginning of Drishyam 3 with the Pooja.” (SIC) Mohanlal had posted on his X handle.
This is the sixth film that Mohanlal is shooting for with Jeethu Joseph. Apart from the Drishyam franchise, he has also done 12th Man, Neru and a large portion of the incomplete film Raam. Mohanlal was just in the news for winning the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contribution to Indian cinema. Jeethu Joseph’s film with Asif Ali and Aparna Balamurali, titled Mirage, released to mixed reviews last Friday.
In July, director Jeethu Joseph stated that he had stalled the shoot of the Hindi version of Drishyam 3, saying that work on the remake should not begin before the shoot of the Malayalam version. Additional production details of the Hindi version, however, was not revealed. He said that there were initial talks of the both versions getting shot simultaneously, but the plans were later dropped once Jeethu hinted that such a move would be dealt with legally. He had also recently stated that he was under a lot of pressure to complete the writing of the third instalment and that he was waking up at 3.30 AM daily to finish it. At a college event, he had even confirmed that he had finally cracked the climax of the film.
The first part of Drishyam was remade in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu apart from the Hindi version. In Kannada, it starred V Ravichandran and in Telugu, Venkatesh played the lead in 2014. Kamal Haasan did it in Tamil in 2015, as did Ajay Devgn in Hindi. Drishyam was also remade in Sinhala and Chinese, and the Indonesian and Korean remakes are said to be in production.
