Manoj K Jayan to act as a 60 year old farmer

Manoj K Jayan, who has played diverse roles in Mollywood, is gearing up to sport a new look in his next. Manoj will play an 60-year-old farmer named Daanappan in State Award winning director Avira Rebecca’s Negalukal. Chandini — who enacted P K Rosy, the first heroine of Malayalam cinema, in Celluloid — is the female lead in the film.
The director says, “Negalukal is a word from the language of the famed Kurichya tribe of Wayanad.The term refers to the ancestors of the community. Interestingly, the tribe even prays to their ancestors and they are placed above Gods in their society. Even the decisions about the right time to sow seeds on their farmlands are based on prophesy from negalukal, which are sought through velichappadu.”
The film is on how the Green Revolution of the 70s negatively affected the Kurichyas and the farmers of Kerala in general. “The revolution promoted agri-business on a big scale and discouraged the use of the traditional seed varieties, which affected our farmers quite a bit,” says Rebecca. Chandini plays Manoj’s daughter in the film and Irshad acts as his son.