The Malayalam movie Virus is one the most expected films right now. It went in for the censors recently and has come out with a clean U. The run time for Virus is now 150 minutes, confirm sources in the know.

Virus is a film based on the Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala that created a big panic and killed many people. Directed by Aashiq Abu, it has a notable line-up for stars in the cast including Asif Ali, Parvathy, Rima Kallingal, Soubin Shahir, Dileesh Pothan, Rahman, Indrans, Remya Nambeesan, Madonna Sebastian, Sharafudheen, Sreenath Bhasi, Revathy, Joju George, Senthil Krishna, Basil Joseph, Sudeesh and Vettukili Prakash. While the cast is already impressive, the director has roped in Fahadh Faasil to play a cameo role in it.

Sources in the know say that Revathy will be seen as the Health Minister KK Shailaja, Rima Kallingal as Lini Puthussery, the nurse who was affected by the virus and passed away while treating the patients, Indrajith Sukumaran as Dr Gopakumar and Tovino Thomas as the Kozhikode collector UV Jose.

The scripting for Virus is done by Mushin Parari, Suhas and Sharfu. National Award winning cinematographer Rajeev Ravi will be cranking the camera for this venture with Sushin Shyam composing the tunes and editor Saiju Sreedharan taking charge at the editing table. Aashiq Abu and Rima Kallingal are bankrolling Virus under the banner OPM. Reports are that its makers have done enough research to make a movie out of Nipah outbreak so that the events could be documented.

It may be noted that the shooting of this film was wrapped up in 52 days before it went into the post-production mode. With the censor done, Virus is scheduled to hit the marquee on June 7.

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