Jayasurya is back with Payyans

Jayasurya and Anjali (the heroine of the Tamil film Angaditheru) are playing the leads in director Leo Thaddeus' Payyans. The Malayalam film is being produced under the banner of Kammu Vadakkan Films.

"The story is based on the life of a young man named Josie (Jayasurya). He takes life a bit too easy; he is not even bothered to complete his engineering course, which he has stopped midway. His mother Padma (Rohini) is working in a shipping company. They live in Fort Kochi," says Leo Thaddeus, who has earlier directed Pachamarathanalil, with Sreenivasan and Padmapriya in the lead.

"After a while Josie's careless ways land him in deep trouble. He changes his nature after a while. How this happens is what Payyans is all about. The story is a family drama that deals with the relationship between parents and their children," adds the director.

Lal plays Josie's father John Varghese, a marine engineer, who has not been seen for several years now. "He gets an impression of his dad through his mother," says Jayasurya.

The actor has just completed shooting for V K Prakash' Three Kings and is now wrapping up debutant director Boban Samuel's Janapriyan.

Anjali, who won acclodes for her excellent performance in Katrathu Thamizh and Angadi Theru, makes her entry into Malayalam.

She plays Seema, a sound engineer at a radio station, who falls in love with Josie after a while. She has a big role in bringing some changes in Josie's life and prompting him to be more disciplined.

The film also stars Lalu Alex, Janardhanan, Shankar and Suraj Venjarammoodu.

Payyans has cinematography by S G Raman and music by Alphonse.