The rights of Malayalam movies seem to be hot stock in the remake market right now. After Prithviraj’s Driving Licence and Ayyappanum Koshiyum being bought by Bollywood, Tollywood and Kollywood, the
Telugu remake
rights of Muhammed
Musthafa’s
Kappela
is the latest to be picked up.
The film’s producer Vishnu Venu announced through the movie’s official page: “Kappela is to be remade in Telugu by Sithara Entertainments (Producers of Allu Arjun’s Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo , Jersey Movie , and many more). Kappela is the third movie from malayalam industry after Premam & Ayyappanum Koshiyum to be bought by them! Expressing our sincere thanks to all well wishers for making our small movie a grand success!”
The Malayalam film starred
Anna Ben,
Roshan Mathew and
Sreenath Bhasi. It marked the directorial debut of Ain actor Musthafa.