Vineeth Sreenivasan's first movie of 2023 'Thankam' will be heading to the big screen this month

Thankam is a road trip comedy co-directed by Saheed Arafathan and Prinish Prabhakaran and follows two gold agents from Thirssur who are tasked with moving a large amount of gold to Mumbai.

The movie is written by Syam Pushkaran known for his work on critically acclaimed movies like Kumbalangi Nights (2019), Maheshinte Prathikaaram (2016), and Joji (2021).

The rest of the cast of the movie includes National award winner Aparna Balamurali , Bollywood actor Girish Kulkarni, Kochu Preman, and Vineeth Thattil.

The cinematography for the movie is handled by Gautham Sankar, Bijibal is in charge of the music direction and Kiran Das will be editing the movie.

The movie will be Vineeth Sreenivasan 's first movie of 2023, the director/actor had a great year with his directorial venture 'Hridayam' becoming a massive success and going on to gross 69 crores and becoming the third highest-grossing movie of 2022.

The movie starred Pranav Mohanlal, Kalyani Priyadarshan, and Darshana Rajendran in the lead and won two Kerala State Film Awards.

The movie will be remade in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu, with the Hindi remake rights acquired by Karan Johar, and will be the Bollywood debut of Ibrahim Ali Khan.

He followed this up by playing the lead role in the dark comedy Mukundan Unni Associates, which was a critical and commercial hit.

Vineeth Sreenivasan has another three projects lined up for the year, they are Pookkaalam directed by Ganesh Raj, Kurukkan directed by Jayalal Divakaran and finally '2018' directed by Jude Anthany Joseph and is based on the 2018 flood in Kerala.

As for Biju Menon, he will be sharing the screen with Suresh Gopi and Anushka Shetty in the upcoming action movie 'Ottakkomban' as well the sequel to his 2014 superhit 'Vellimoonga'.

And Aparna Balamurali will be appearing in Dhoomam, Ula, Padmini, Mindiyum Paranjum, and 2018.

Thankam will be released on January 26th.