Punyalan Agarbathis posters
Punyalan Agarbathis is a 2013 Malayalam comedy drama film written and directed by Ranjith Sankar, starring Jayasurya, Nyla Usha, Aju Varghese, and Rachana Narayanankutty. The film is produced by Jayasurya and Ranjith Sankar under the banner of Dreams N Beyond and features music composed by Bijibal, whilst cinematography is handled by Sujith Vasudev and is edited by Lijo Paul.
Cast
Jayasurya as Joy Thakkolkaran
Nyla Usha as Anu
Aju Varghese as Greenu Sharma
Innocent as John Thakkolkaran, Joy's grandfather
Rachana Narayanankutty as Advocate Sai
Sreejith Ravi as Abhayakumar
Ranjith Sankar who had recently announced two projects Sudhi Valmeekam with Prithviraj Sukumaran and May Flower, has given the announcement that these films will take place in 2014. Director and producer Ranjith Sankar had also announced that his next directorial Malayalam movie will be titled Punyalan Agarbattis, which will have Jayasurya in the lead character who also will co produce the film. He had also said it was expected to go on the floor by August month at the location of Thrissur. Punyalan Agarbathis was never even in the director's list of immediate project. After the script came to play the director had decided going back to Thrissur which also has always been his greatest source of strength all these years. It was also decided after discussing projects with actor Jayasurya to be part of the previously announced project Mayflower, to become the lead and with him favoring the project so much he decided to co-produce the film along with the director. Distribution was decided to be done by Central Pictures. The screenplay is jointly done by the director himself and new comers Anil Kurian and Abhayakumar. [2] Anil Kurian had earlier associated with Ranjith Sankar for Molly Aunty Rocks as the Project Designer.
Jayasurya had always been the topper for first list of actors to play the role of a married young man from Thrissur for the director and was initially casted. Nyla Usha a Dubai based Radio Jockey who had recently completed the shooting of her debut film Kunjananthante Kada, at the time which was directed by National award winning filmmaker Salim Ahmad. She was casting to play a role of a modern wife, who works in the Telecom sector.[3][4][5] Other cast in the film includes Rachana Narayanankutty who was famous for her role in the sitcom Marimayam and also appearing in films such as Amen, Aju Varghese who has been the rising young comedian was casting to play another type cast role, T.G. Ravi also was casted to play an important role and the others who were casted were Mala Aravindan, Sunil Sukhada, Edavela Babu and Shivaji Guruvayur.[6] The popular senior actor Innocent was casted to play the hero's grandfather. Innocent plays one of the two characters that influence the hero and which his grandfather is one among them. This film was a comeback film for the actor who had been fighting cancer and therefor not being in films for a while.
