Mangaluru: A Tulu movie, ‘Madime’, will hit the cinema screens in the city on Thursday, November 20. Produced by Balakrishna Films and directed by Tulu playwright and director Vijaya Kumar Kodialbail, it is the 53rd Tulu movie.

Vijay Kumar Kodialbail is known for his maiden blockbuster Tulu film ‘Oriayrdori Asal’. The movie had run for over 25 weeks setting a new bar for success

Addressing press persons here on Tuesday, Kodialbail, who has also written the screenplay and dialogue, said Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam and multi-lingual singer K.S. Chitra have sung a song each in the movie.

The story of the movie is based on the Tulu play ‘Madime’ by Kodialbail, which has been staged around 500 times. Kodialbail said Likith Shetty and Ramya Barna who were lead actors in ‘Oriyardori Asal’ were playing the lead roles in this film too. Some of the other actors are Usha Bhandary, comedian Bhojaraja Vamanjoor, Prashanth Siddi, Bantwal Jayarama Acharya and Santhosh Shetty.

Stating that it would be a three-hour film, Kodialbail said two more Tulu movies of his would be released after some time. In addition, talks were on to make five more Tulu films. All the upcoming films would be made before end 2015.

He said a series of Tulu movies produced recently had added viewers to Tulu movies. Other Tulu films in the offing included Dibbana and Super Marmaye.

Presently, Tulu movie ‘Rang’ and ‘Chali Polilu’ are already in theatres and making good profits.