Ranjith Shankar’s only association with Cinema, it’s heard, was that he has been a friend to director Lal Jose and had been to Lal Jose’s shooting locations as well. But this guy, when he directed his debut movie, ‘Passenger’, did take us all by surprise. ‘Passenger’, one of the hit movies of 2009, seemed a movie coming from a seasoned director, who knew his job very well.
The script (by Ranjith Shankar himself) was well written, with no loose ends at all and the direction well handled too. The film was a hit, though it didn’t have the usual box office formula and came without songs either.
Now Ranjith Shankar gets ready for his second film. If it was Dileep and Sreenivasan who played the key roles in ‘Passenger’, along with Mamta Mohandas, in Ranjith’s new film, titled ‘Arjunan Sakshi’, it’s Prithviraj who is the hero. The film has Prithviraj playing an architect named Roy, who comes to Kerala after having worked in different cities all over India. He lands up in Kerala
with so many dreams in his heart, but dreams are after all dreams and are easy to get shattered.It’s this that reportedly forms the theme of ‘Arjunan Sakshi’, which will once again see Ranjith Shankar in full form as the director as well as the script-writer. Giving him company are the likes of P.Sukumar (camera) and Ranjan Abraham (editing).Let’s stay tuned for more on ‘Arjunan Sakshi’.
