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Bro Daddy is an 2022 Indian Malayalam-language comedy-drama film directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran and produced by Antony Perumbavoor through Aashirvad Cinemas, with a screenplay by Sreejith N. and Bibin Maliekal. The film stars Mohanlal and Prithviraj Sukumaran, with Lalu Alex, Meena, Kalyani Priyadarshan, Kaniha, Jagadish, Mallika Sukumaran, Soubin Shahir, and Unni Mukundan in supporting roles. The songs and background score for the film was composed by Deepak Dev.
Bro Daddy

Directed byPrithviraj SukumaranWritten by

Sreejith N.

Bibin Maliekal

Produced byAntony PerumbavoorStarring

Mohanlal

Prithviraj Sukumaran

CinematographyAbinandhan RamanujamEdited byAkhilesh MohanMusic byDeepak Dev

Production
company

Aashirvad Cinemas

Distributed byDisney+ Hotstar

Release date

26 January 2022

Running time

160 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageMalayalam

Cast

Mohanlal as John Chacko Kattadi, Eesho's father

Prithviraj Sukumaran as Eesho John Kattadi, John's son

Meena as Annamma, John's wife

Kalyani Priyadarshan as Anna, Eesho's live-in partner

Lalu Alex as Kurian G. Maliekkal, Anna's father

Kaniha as Elsy Kurian, Anna's mother

Jagadish as Dr. Samuel Mathew

Mallika Sukumaran as Ammachi, John's mother

Soubin Shahir as Happy Pinto

Unni Mukundan as Cyril

Jaffar Idukki as Fr. Edward Kulathakkal

Charle as Venkayya

Antony Perumbavoor as S.I. Antony Joseph

Nikhila Vimal as Nurse

Dinesh Prabhakar as James Kutty

Joji Mundakayam as Joji

Sijoy Varghese as Paul

Muthumani as Dr. Archana Menon

Kavya Shetty as Susan

Sohan Seenulal as Kurian's office manager


Production

Development

Empuraan was supposed to be Prithviraj Sukumaran's second directorial, sequel to his debut film Lucifer (2019), set to begin in 2021 had the COVID-19 pandemic not spread the planet.[1] On 16 June 2021, Prithviraj revealed via Instagram that he liked a storyline written by his daughter Alankrita which he likes to direct, but put aside for another screenplay that he heard which can be made a film amid the COVID-19 restrictions.[2] Two days later (on 18 June), Bro Daddy was announced as his second directorial, again with Mohanlal in the title role and produced by Antony Perumbavoor for Aashirvad Cinemas, which will also have himself in an equally important role. He described the film as a "fun family drama", written by Sreejith N. and Bibin Maliekal.[3]
Prithviraj said that the kind of films produced during the pandemic period prompted him to take Bro Daddy, the pandemic forced filmmakers to make "contained films" that can be made within pandemic restrictions, "we are badly missing a happy film in Malayalam cinema over the past one and half year. All of the content we see in Kerala is dark. It's either a murder mystery or a dark satire or an investigative thriller", it was when he was thinking about this Sreejith and Maliekal approached him with the screenplay of Bro Daddy, "I found it to be interesting, hilarious and more than anything, I believe it will be a really enjoyable, light watch". He then narrated it to Mohanlal, who immediately agreed.[1] The screenplay was bought by Prithviraj Productions.[4]

Casting

Beside Mohanlal and Prithviraj, the rest of the cast billed in the title poster during the film's announcement were Kalyani Priyadarshan, Meena, Lalu Alex, Murali Gopy, Kaniha, and Soubin Shahir.[3] Prithviraj called Unni Mukundan for the film while they where working in Bhramam.[5] He also called Jagadish his other co-actor in Bhramam for a humourous role.[6] Bro Daddy marks the Malayalam debut of Kannada actress Kavya Shetty[7] and Tamil actor Charle. Prithviraj's mother Mallika Sukumaran was cast in the film as Annamachi.[8]

Filming

Bro Daddy was scheduled to begin production only after Aashirvad Cinemas completes production of 12th Man which was supposed to begin on 5 July 2021, but held back after failing to obtain permission from the state government due to the restrictions pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, they decided to move ahead with Bro Daddy.[9] However, Bro Daddy was denied permission to shoot in Kerala, which was originally planned to shoot entirely in the state, hence they had to move out of Kerala, which increased cost of production.[10] Location scouting was complete by early July.[11] Principal photography began on 15 July 2021 in Hyderabad, Telangana.[12] First day of shoot took place at an IT Park, with scenes featuring Prithviraj and Kalyani. A total of 52-day shoot was charted for the film in Telangana.[13] Mohanlal joined on 20 July.[14] Since government granted permission to shoot films in Kerala from 18 July. It was shifted to Kerala after two more weeks of filming in Hyderabad.[15] Filming was completed on 6 October 2021.[16] It lasted 44 days. Cinematography was handled by Abinandhan Ramanujam.[17]