Malayalam Superstar Mohanlal is going to play the role of a Scientist in his upcoming movie “Witch Hunt” which is the tentative title of the movie directing by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan. Mohanlal need to portray as an ISRO scientist in the movie and this may become one of the challenging roles he played so far. He is playing the role of a famous scientist Nambi Narayan.
Nambi Narayanan is an Indian scientist. As a senior official at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), he was in-charge of the cryogenics division.[1] In 1994, he was falsely charged with espionage and arrested. The charges against him were dismissed by the CBI in 1996, and the Supreme Court declared him not guilty in 1998.
As per the industry sources, Mohanlal confirmed the news of playing a scientist role and final discussions are not yet completed.
Ananth Narayan Mahadevan already directed films like Red Alert: The War Within, MeeSindhutaiSapkal in Marathi and both stories are of real people who suffered in life and fight back.
