Pranchiyettan And The Saint

After receiving tremendous critical acclaim for Paleri Manikyam, director-writer Renjith and Megastar Mammootty are teaming up once again for the film Pranchiyettan And The Saint. Another experimental film from Renjith, Pranchiyettan And The Saint has Priyamani playing the heroine. Innocent, Khushboo, Siddique and Master Ganapathy play important supporting roles in the film.

Mammootty plays the title role of Pranchiyettan which is the nickname of Cherammel Eenasu Francis, a Thrissur based rich rice merchant. He is also called as Aripranchi, which he got as a result of the family rice business.

Though hailing from a rich family, Pranchiyettan has an inferiority complex about the fact that he is not much educated. According to him, what he doesn't have is social status. He tries different methods to get social acceptance with the help of friends like Vasu Menon(Innocent) but everything goes in vain. How the likes of Padmashri (Priyamani), a Mumbai-based interior decorator who hails from Thrissur and Poly (Master Ganapathy) changes his perception of life forms the rest of the story. Australian theatre artist Jesse Fox Allen plays the Saint, believed to be an important character in the film.

Pranchiyettan and the Saint is produced under the banner of Capitol Films owned by Renjith and distributed by Play House. Venu Isc is the cinematographer of the film. Lyrics by Shibu Chakravarthy have been composed by Ouseppachan.