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filmmaker Santosh Sivan
is all set to begin work on his latest
venture - a Hollywood film to be entirely
filmed in Kerala.
Santosh is director and cinematographer
of the film, which has been given
the working title "Kerala",
to be shot in Munnar early next year.
Sanjeev Sivan, his filmmaker brother,
said: "It is being jointly produced
by Echo Lake Productions of Los Angeles,
Adirondack Pictures of New York and
Santosh Sivan Productions of India.
The film will be released worldwide
by mid 2006."
Sanjeev said, "The film is set
in the 1940s with the freedom struggle
as backdrop and the attempts of the
English to create inroads into the
spice heartland of Kerala."
According to Sanjeev, his brother
had to make a lot of effort to convince
the Hollywood team to shoot in Kerala
rather than in South Africa and Brazil.
The first ever Hollywood venture to
be shot in God's Own Country, as Kerala
is known, "will go a long way
to showcase the natural beauty as
well as the rich cultural tradition
of the land", said Sanjeev.
The American cast includes William
Jaudon, Jennifer Ryan and William
Roache.
The Indian cast consists of Bollywood
actors Nandita Das and Rahul Bose,
along with Tilakan, Manoj K. Jayan
and Nedumudi Venu from the Malayalam
film industry.
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