Prabhu Deva In Santosh Sivan’s Urumi

Choreographer turned actor and director Prabhu Deva has been roped into cinematographer turned director Santosh Sivan’s tri-lingual period film Urumi.

Urumi, with the tag line The Boy who wanted to kill Vasco da Gama is being made in Malayalam, Tamil and an abridged English version for an International market.

Prithviraj and Genelia are in the lead in this film made jointly by Prithviraj and Santosh Sivan under the banner of August Cinema.

Urumi is the 8-ft long flexible sword that has been used in Kalari fights for a long time. Sankar Ramakrishnan, who had directed the promising short film Island Express in the Kerala Café anthology, is writing the script.

The film, a bilingual, is set in the 15th century and will be made for the international audiences, informs Santhosh Sivan in his recent interview.

Prabhu Deva is said to be doing an important role in the film though his presence in the film is yet to be confirmed by the director.