In short, Pazhassi Raja's was one of the first voices to be raised against British rule in India and he was one of the first freedom fighters, but not many people are aware of this outside Kerala.

After a gap of 20 years, Nair, Hariharan and Mammootty have come together for the film. The trio last time teamed up for 'Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha' and created magic on celluloid. The film fetched the actor his first of the three national awards.

'Since I'm the hero of the film, I will certainly be involved in all sort of promotion of the film. This is the first Malayalam film which will have a national release and of course, I'm excited. But I'm certainly being apprehensive too, because too much expectation is not a good thing,' said Mammootty.

'Resul Pookutty has designed the sound and we were together last week and he too appears to be happy. Any way, now we will wait,' said Mammootty.