India, June 17 -- Filmmaker Rahul Sadasivan has quickly become a name to reckon with in the horror genre, thanks to his recent releases Bramayugam (2024) and Dies Irae (2025). His next film, Odiyan: The Age of Illusion, was announced on Tuesday. The film will be headlined by Prithviraj Sukumaran and Manju Warrier, and produced by Karan Johar, Adar Poonawalla, Apoorva Mehta, and Supriya Menon, under Dharma Productions and Prithviraj Productions.

But this is not the first time in recent years that Mollywood has tapped into the Kerala legend of Odiyan. There were at least two times in the last few years when the Malayalam film industry attempted to explore the subject. While both films became among the highest-grossing of their time in the ...