Sudhi Maddison’s directorial debut, Neymar, a breezy entertainer headlined by an indie dog, has been lapped up by the audience and Sudhi is ecstatic.
Aakamsh, aka Kunjava (Mathew Thomas) buys Neymar to impress a girl as advised by his close friend, Sinto Chackola (Naslen K Gafoor). Irked by the problems caused by Neymar, Kunjava’s father packs the dog off to Pondicherry. The friends sneak away to Pondicherry to bring Neymar back home, but they end up landing in more problems.
Sudhi says that he had planned to make a short film in 2017-18 about an indie dog and the ruckus it creates. During the lockdown, he decided to make it into a film. “The story was ready and that was when V Cinemas [producers of Neymar] was looking for a good subject. They liked my story and the project took off. Since I am not a proficient writer, I got in two others — Adarsh Sukumaran and Paulson Skaria, who have written the screenplay and dialogues. Three of us brainstormed and came up with a new second half,” he says.
