Shyamaprasad to adapt Anees Salim's novel, The Small Town Sea

After making the award winning move, Oru Njayarazhcha, director Shyamaprasad is all set to make a movie of Indian-English writer Anees Salim's novel, The Small Town Sea. The writer took it to his social media page to announce it on wednesday.
Speaking to us, the director divulged that the novel has a very beautiful story. "I am yet-to work on it and it is in the nascent stage," Shyamaprasad said.He also added that the movie will go on floors in mid March and will be released by the end of the year.

Anees Salim's The Small town sea is a story is about a thirteen-year-old boy who is forced to leave a big city for an unnamed coastal town, with his family. His father passes away on the very first page of the novel and the story is weaved through the son's sadness. It is his fifth novel and his previous one, The Blind Lady’s Descendants, had won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his fourth novel in 2018.
Shyamaprasad, who is known for his film adaptations had earlier made movies such as Agnisakshi (1999) based on Lalithambika Antharjanam’s novel of the same name, Akale (2004) based on Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, and Artist (2013) based on Paritosh Uttam’s Dreams in Prussian Blue.