Ace cinematographer-director to act

Noted cinematographer and director Santosh Sivan will don the greasepaint for the first time. He had been roped in to play the noted painter Raja Ravi Varma in the Malayalam film Makara Manju. The film, which will go on floors in a couple of weeks, will be directed by Lenin Rajendran.

On his acting assignment, Sivan states, “It was Lenin who approached me with the amusing idea of playing Raja Ravi Varma, the world renowned painter.”