''Who'' is a 2018 Indian English and

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-language

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, written and directed by

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as his directorial debut. The film features

Shine Tom Chacko Shine Tom Chacko (born 15 September 1983) is an Indian actor and former assistant director who works in Malayalam cinema. After working as an assistant to director Kamal for about 9 years, he forayed into acting through the film. '' Gaddama'' ...

br>Merin Mariya

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Pearle Maaney Pearle Maaney ( /maːɳi/; born 28 May 1989) is an Indian actress, lyricist, YouTuber, and television presenter who works in Malayalam films. She is known for co-hosting three seasons of the Malayalam dance reality show ''D 4 Dance''. In 2018, ...

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and Prashanth Nair (IAS) . 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

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'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. 'WHO' is now streaming on

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worldwide.

Synopsis

A beautiful yet mysterious valley spread across 200 km. In Mercada, strange things happen every year on 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. The film deals with dream interpretation with an emphasis on magic realism.

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is another significant aspect of the movie which serves as a sequel to the yet to be released movie, ''Isabella''. Set for a niche audience, the film is an Indie movie. Hollywood vocalist Uyanga Bold has sung a song for WHO.

Cast

as John Luka *

as Arunima Avarthan
Merin Mariya
as Ayana Bennet *

as Dolores *

as Hector * Prashanth Nair IAS as Dr. Samuel * Angana Roy as Neena * Sajin Saleem as Veetus Benty

Production

''Who'' began shooting June 2017 in

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, and took 20 days. Principal photography for the ''Who'' began in 2017 May at

Munnar Munnar () is a town and hill station in the Idukki district of the southwestern Indian state of Kerala. Munnar is situated at around above mean sea level, in the Western Ghats mountain range. Munnar is also called the "Kashmir of South Indi ...

. Crew planned two months break from filming as

had prior commitments. On 23 July

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

. 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

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 ''

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'' as director in 1988.

Music

''Who'' is a

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motion picture. The

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is done by Vishakha Bokil and National award winner

Sinoy Joseph Sinoy Joseph (born 31 July 1981) is an Indian film sound mixer and sound designer. He won the 60th National Film Awards for the best Re-recordist of the Final Mixed Track for the film ''Gangs of Wasseypur''. He also won the best sound mixing a ...

is the mixing engineer in the film. The film was fully shot in Sync-Sound. Uyanga Bold who served as a vocalist for

Hans Zimmer Hans Florian Zimmer (; born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has won two Academy Awards, Oscars and four Grammy Awards, Grammys, and has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmys and a Tony Awar ...

in the score of

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lent her vocals for a song in the film.

References

External links

* * *{{Official website, https://whomovie.corridor6films.com/ 2018 films 2010s Malayalam-language films Indian science fiction films English-language Indian films Indian multilingual films 2018 multilingual films 2018 directorial debut films 2018 science fiction films