Mammootty’s Rajamanickam is creating box-office history

Rajamanickam is emerging as the highest grosser of 2005 beating Mohanlal’s Naran or Udayananu Tharam and Dileep’s Chanthupottu. It is the latest blockbuster and record setter at the Malayalam boxoffice that has Mamotty playing the lead. The cinegoers have taken the Trivandrum style slang to their hearts creating a mass appeal to the film, young and old alike. Repeat audience for the film makes it already a box office hit in the history of malayalam cinema. It's amazing to know that Mammootty still holds a big influnece in the boxoffice charts of Kerala raising it to higher levels. His upcoming release Balaram Vs. Tharadas is the next keenly watched film expected for this Christmas. With this exceptionally appealing hit, Anwar Rasheed, director of this Mammootty starrer, joins the club with Blessy and Rosshan Andrrews. It is further reported that many south indian stars have seen the film Rajamanickam and intended to do it in their own languages. Venkatesh is romoured to do the remake of film in Telugu. Leading financier Satyamurthy seemed to have bagged the rights of the Telugu version. The report is that Venkatesh, having seen the special screening of the film, is all excited about it. The movie will be remade in Tamil with Sarath Kumar playing the lead role. Anwar Rashid himself will direct the Tamil version. But the latest buzz is that Raajamanickyam itself will have its second part planned with the same star cast and crew later next year. The director and the actor have confirmed the sequel to Raajamanickyam. Recent Asianet interview of Mammootty by Jagadish confirmed the chances of a sequel coming up soon.