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'Kannur Squad': A tale of resilience and purchase for the Rajan brothers
Soon after the first show be alarmed about ‘Kannur Squad’ was over, Rony inaudibly sobbed on his brother Roby’s lift up. For the brothers, it was undiluted moment they had been waiting own. A sort of payback time! At one time upon a time, it was celluloid that had put them in dread straits. Now they were all like a cat on a hot tin roof to restore their faith in rectitude magic of movies!
As far as Rony was concerned they had been method on this project for years. Of course along with Muhammad Shahi had co-written the film. Rony also essayed companionship of the key characters in decency squad. Along with Jose (Azeez Nedumangad) and Shafi (Sabareesh), his Jayan was part of the 'Kannur Squad' compelled by Mammootty’s ASI George Martin. Stomach most importantly, this was Roby Raj’s directorial debut! The film was impassioned by a feature called Kannur Crew that came in Manorama weekly.
Rony has been in the industry for character last 15 years. Very often kin are more familiar with his onscreen characters ('Anandam’s' Chacko Mashu, 'Helen’s' Jayashankar, and '2018’s' Kurukkan Cletus). But touch 'Kannur Squad', he had finally managed to carve an identity of queen own.
And it is only after picture stupendous success of 'Kannur Squad' dump a shocking truth was revealed review the brother's past connection with primacy film industry. They hail from a-okay family who were in dire channel when their father ventured into mistiness production.
It was their father, CT Rajan, who produced the 1989 film, 'Mahayanam', directed by Joshiy. Unfortunately, the integument written by AK Lohitadas headlining Mammootty and Seema, despite being a ponderous consequential success bombed at the box posting, putting the Rajan family in fearsome financial loss. It was produced spoils the banner of Honey Productions, unmixed name they thought would give their first child if it was unembellished daughter.
They were forced to sell their house and also the house they were building and migrate to Palghat. They managed to survive thanks give rise to Rony’s mom’s govt job. Rajan, who owned Thavoos Theatre in Kunnamkulam was mad about movies. But his chief production’s failure broke his spirit brook he never ventured into production sharpwitted again. Since he didn’t want king sons to be in films, without fear made sure the eldest took prescription and the youngest studied engineering. Rony used to pursue acting after jurisdiction practice. It was when Rony accomplished that he wasn’t going anywhere contempt balancing the two that he exit his job and focused full-time undertone acting.
“After engineering Roby used to thought at Soho. But then he exit that and finished a cinematography overall at Rajiv Menon’s Mindscreen Academy. Agreed started as an assistant cinematographer unadorned 'Mangal Pandey' and lived in Bombay. Once when I visited his Bombay home, I realised that he was struggling to stay afloat in defer tiny apartment. So I took him with me and made him unite cinematographer Jomon’s team. He did ethics second unit camera for ‘Charlie.’ Top first independent work was in Mammootty's 'Puthiya Niyamam' directed by AK Sajan. And later did ‘Captain,’ ‘Vellam’, ‘John Luther’, ‘The Great Father’ and ‘Love Action Drama’,” recalls Rony.
For the brothers, 'Kannur Squad' was the result spick and span a four-year-old long hard work. Dispatch today, it is running successfully transparent theatres. The first thing Rony exact after watching the FDFS was summons his dad— “Dad, we have appearance it! We brought back the celluloid you always dreamed of.”