Dominic And The Ladies' Purse director Gautham Menon reveals how Mammootty collaboration happened

PUBLISHED DATE : 17/Jan/2025

Dominic And The Ladies' Purse director Gautham Menon reveals how Mammootty collaboration happened

Dominic And The Ladies' Purse starring Mammootty in the lead is an upcoming Malayalam language suspense thriller directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon. The movie releases on January 23, 2025 and recently Gautham Menon revealed how the collaboration with the 73 year old Mollywood star came about.  

 

"In 2005/2006, I got an opportunity to meet Mammootty and I narrated a 'Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu' (2006) type subject for a Malayalam film to him. But it didn't take off at that point. Then I got to act with him in a movie (Bazooka) but we didn't talk about working together; that movie was (shot in) sync sound, so he was teaching me how to handle sync sound. After Bazooka, a Malayalam writer (Dr. Neeraj Rajan) told me a story which I liked very much..I felt it would be right to take it to Mammooty Sir, Menon stated in an YouTube interview. 

The director then revealed that Mammotty was immediately on board Dominic and the Ladies' Purse which marks the first time Gautham Menon would be directing the actor. "I reached out to his team with a text saying I'd like to narrate a story to Mammuka (as Mammooty is fondly known). I was called in the immediate next day. And I loved that. The discussion went for 2 hours and he asked me who the producer was. I told him, I'll bring the project investors. He gave me till evening to give his nod and we came back to Chennai. The next day morning he asked me to come back to Kerala to start shooting in the next 10 days, and that he'll be the producer of Dominic And The Ladies' Purse." 

Dominic And The Ladies' Purse has Mammootty playing a chill private investigator who was formerly with the police force. How the casual finding of a lost woman's purse, leads to a murder investigation, bringing together a bunch of characters with quirks, is what forms the film's story. 

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