A nonetheless from the quick movie Manavalan in Trouble made by the staff of UST in Thiruvananthapuram | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
The spotlight of the quick is that staff of UST make up the forged and crew of the movie, similar to Abinand’s first quick movie, Blockbuster Days, launched in 2023. “Out of the 70-plus actors, greater than 95% of them work in my firm. We had put out an in-house casting name. There was no audition. Instead I requested them to ship in a reel to indicate their appearing expertise and the choice was made on the premise of that,” he says.
Abinand PE, director of the quick movie Manavalan in Trouble | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Abinand, who can also be the author and editor of the movie, says that the concept has been with him for someday. “I had deliberate it as a narrative set on a university campus, the place the union inauguration is ready to be accomplished by a brilliant star. Later I developed it into the present storyline. I had mounted it on a big canvas however needed to minimize it down resulting from monetary constraints,” says Abinand.
The movie was shot in and round Thiruvananthapuram. “The shoot, totally on weekends, was over in 4 days. But the publish manufacturing took practically six months as a result of we may work on it solely after workplace hours. It was a wrestle for me and technicians within the crew,” he says.
Most members of the technical crew of Blockbuster Days have labored on this quick as effectively. “As for the actors, majority of them had been dealing with the digicam for the primary time. The relaxation simply had the expertise of working in Blockbuster Days.”
The forged of Manavalan in Trouble, who’re staff of UST in Thiruvananthapuram | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
With hopes of getting into tinsel city some day, Abinand has mounted the quick like a characteristic movie, similar to Blockbuster Days. “Over 150 folks have labored on this mission, which is kind of a giant quantity for this format. We didn’t compromise on something, together with the poster design and VFX [by Aswanth Kodiyeri]. All of us loved engaged on this regardless of the difficulties in balancing it with our job,” he says.
A nonetheless from the quick movie Manavalan in Trouble made by the staff of UST in Thiruvananthapuram | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Drona Jithendranath performs Arun Mohan and Navya Nair his bride, Sruthy. Produced by Bitstream Pictures & Sonicvision and Sarva Community Pharmacy, the movie has background rating and music by Abhilash Prabhasurendran. Cinematography is by Anand Reghunathan, Naveen BG and Sivas Ramar.
The 36-minute movie is streaming on YouTube.
Published – August 18, 2025 11:02 am IST








