WHO

WHO (2018)

A beautiful yet mysterious valley spread across 200 km. In Mercada, strange things happen every year on the Christmas day. A young girl, a dream interpreter, a criminal psychologist and a team of two police officers try to solve the puzzles in the valley.

Date of release
2018-10-31
TMDB
3.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
2h 33m
Genres
Fantasy, Mystery
Director
Ajay Devaloka

Casting

Interesting facts

Who is a 2018 Indian English and Malayalam-language science fiction mystery film, written and directed by Ajay Devaloka as his directorial debut. The film features Shine Tom Chacko, Shruthy Menon, Pearle Maaney, Rajeev Pillai and Prashanth Nair (IAS). The film was produced by Vishakha Bokil and co-produced by MF Anto under the banner of Corridor 6 Films. The teaser was released on YouTube in September.Who is the first time travel movie from Kerala. The movie had its official world premiere at the 71st Cannes film festival's market section on 15 May 2018. Who had a nationwide release in India in Malayalam language with English subtitles obtaining rave reviews from the critics.

Production

Who began shooting June 2017 in Nainital, Uttarakhand, and took 20 days. Principal photography for the Who began in 2017 May at Munnar. Crew planned two months break from filming as Shine Tom Chacko had prior commitments. On 23 July Ajay Devaloka started the filming in Naintal with Natural lighting. Devaloka was adamant that he wanted virgin geography which no cinema viewer had ever seen. So they were lucky and got the apt place in Uttarakhand.

The film depends mostly on mist, so it was challenging to keep the continuity as well. Locations of many scenes were in remote places far away from each other, which made the crew uneasy. Ultimately the second schedule wrapped up after 23 days shoot for Pearle Maaney to reduce her weight. The movie was completed in 3 schedules.

The film was officially announced as Isabella and the title launch was done by director Mohan, who interestingly had a film Isabella as director in 1988.

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