Jul
Mammootty Launches Reality Show- “Mammootty-The Best Actor Award 2009″
3 time national award winner and Malayalam movie star Mammootty has started a reality show in search of young actors and actresses. The show is called “Mammootty-The Best Actor Award 2009” was first aired on Asianet TV on Saturday. More than 1000 aspirants came to join the talent hunt programme. Out of them only 16 were selected, out of which 6 are female contestants. They will have to perform in front of the judges in every episode.
As Mammootty has started his own production house called Play House, he has decided to give chances for young and new faces in his movies.The show will be broadcasted every Saturday and the grand finale will take place in Dubai in October. The panel of judjes include Jagathi Sreekumar, Urvashi, Sreenivasan director Sidhique and also actor Nedumudi Venu.
Play House has already signed in 3 movies which will have the superstar in the lead role. Being the first episode of the talent hunt search, he decided to show his face. He will again be seen in the finale of the programme. Being the chairman of the Communist Party based channel Kairali TV , he decided to launch the programme o Asianet. When asked about the matter he smiled and said that the proposal was put forward by Asianet and he felt it was good and so agreed. But, there has been rumors that Mammootty knowingly gave the programme to Asianet as the channel was more competitive than Kairali TV.



















