Urumi the Malayalam movie that released in Telugu with the same title starring Prithviraj and Genelia D’Souza, the film visually a glorious treat beats Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara to win the best film award at at the recently concluded 11th Imagine India International Film Festival, Madrid.
It seems like that there is no stopping the “Urumi” good run, even a year after its commercial release. Urumi director Santosh Sivan clinching the honours for the best director too.
The visually breathtaking movie starred South Indian actors including Prithiviraj, Genelia D’souza, Vidya Balan, Tabu, Prabhu Deva and many others. In addition to “Urumi”, the competition section had five films — Zoya Akhtar’s “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”, Sanjay Nag’s “Memoirs in March”, Bikramjit Gupta’s “Achal”, Salim Ahmed’s “Adaminte Makan Abu” and Rajesh Pillai’s “Traffic”. Urumi is a film that tells an interesting, historical story with a splendid visual angle offers people to understand with the story easily, where language is not the issue.
Urumi: The Warriors Who Wanted to Kill Vasco Da Gama is a 2011 Malayalam historical fantasy film directed and co-produced by Santosh Sivan and written by Shankar Ramakrishnan. The movie features Prithviraj, Prabhu Deva, Arya, Genelia D’Souza, Nithya Menon, Vidya Balan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Alexx ONell and the background score and songs were composed by Deepak Dev, lyrics were by Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri, Rafeeq Ahammed and Engandiyur Chandrasekharan.