Not to act as Mammootty's brother: Maqbool Salmann

Youth actor and nephew of Mammootty, Maqbool Salman, has said he is not appearing as the former’s brother in the new film to be directed by Ranji Panicker’s son Nikhil Panicker.

Salman is the son of Mammootty’s brother and actor P I Ebrahim Kutty. “In Nikhil’s film, I am doing an important role but not that of my uncle’s (Mammootty’s) brother,” he says.

Nothing more is revealed about the character. The shoot will begin in January first week and the title of the film is not yet decided. Maqbool has completed two films namely ‘Dhooram’ and ‘Appuram Bengal Ippuram Thiruvithancore’ . “Dhooram is an interesting film and it depicts two phases of my character,” he says.