Vineeth Sreenivasan pens lyrics for Aanandham

Vineeth Sreenivasan is indeed donning multiple hats for Ganesh Raj's directorial debut '

Aanandham

'. The movie, which will mark the actor-singer's first production venture, will also have him as a songwriter.

Vineeth confirms that he had penned the lyrics of one song for the movie, which has Sachin Warrier composing the music. 'I wasn't supposed to write it actually and I just finished writing it a few days ago. Sachin wanted a simple song for a particular scene. So, I thought I would give it a go and fortunately they liked the lines and retained it for the movie,' says the actor. Earlier this week, its director Ganesh had shared the first look of the movie. 'The film is a fun-filled adventure that explores friendship, love, life and what it's like to be 19 and in college,' he posted on social media. Vineeth says, 'It's entirely Ganesh's movie and he had conceived it really well to make it relate to the current youth, especially the college-going crowd.'

The movie also has seven new faces as part of the cast ' Vishak Nair, Anu Antony, Thomas Mathew, Arun Kurian, Siddhi Mahajankatti and Anarkali Marikar. Incidentally, Vineeth's debut directorial

Malarvaadi Arts Club

also introduced seven new faces, which included Nivin Pauly and Aju Varghese. 'It wasn't planned but I am glad it turned out this way,' says Vineeth. 'When we did Malarvaadi, it was a big support that Dileepettan backed it and the movie benefitted from the attention we received. So when Vinodettan (

Vinod Shoranur

) asked me if I could be part of the movie, I was more than happy to step into the role.'

For the Jacobinte Swargarajyam director, Aanandham is like passing the baton on to the younger generation of filmmakers. 'For the pooja of the film, Dileepettan did our first clap and Nivin lit the lamp. So it was like getting the second cycle rolling,' Vineeth gushes.