The Tamil remake of writer-director Ranjit Sankar's much-acclaimed Malayalam film Passenger (starring Sreenivasan, Dileep and Mamta Mohandas) started rolling under the supervision of director Selva and producer K. Balachander. The Tamil version stars Selva with Sathyaraj and Ganesh Venkatraman in the lead roles. The Tamil version will have more songs than the Malayalam version to entice Tamil audiences. Passenger revolves around the life of honest, straightforward Sathyanathan (Sreenivasan), who regularly travels by a passenger train to his office and back. One day, Sathyanathan falls asleep in the train after a tiring day in office and fails to get down at his destination, Nellayi. Waking up, he meets Nandan Menon (Dileep), a fellow traveller and advocate, who is on his way to his hotel room in Guruvayur. Sathyanathan strikes up a pleasant conversation with Nandan Menon, who reveals that he will be alone for the night as his wife Anuradha (Mamta Mohandas), a TV journalist, is away on an assignment to expose a shady politician (Jagathy Sreekumar), who is milking the state through mining scams. Though Sathyanathan is a total stranger to Nandan-Anuradha until some moments ago, he proves to be the crucial factor in their lives after the minister and his goons start chasing them.
Source: Galatta.com
