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Kerala Cafe is an assortment of 10 different movies on 10 different short stories, directed by ten different Mollywood directors. An anthology movie project, initiated by producer- director Renjith, each of the movies will be around 10-12 minutes long. Inspired by the international films like Paris Je T'aime and Bollywood movies like Mumbai Cutting, and Dus Kahaniya ‘Kerala Café’ will be a novel experience for Malayalees who will be able to see almost all of their favourite actors except Mohanlal, in a single film playing different characters of the movie. ‘Kerala Café’ was recently premiered in the Middle East International Film Festival held at Abu Dhabi, where it received great applause.
Unlike the mentioned movies earlier, ‘Kerala Café’ will be held together by a common theme of journey and a railway restaurant in the name ‘Kerala Café’. Each story will be dealing with different facets of Kerala life. Directors who are a part of the project includes Lal Jose, B Unnikrishnan, Revathy, Shaji Kailas, Shyama Prasad, Padmakumar, Uday Ananthan, Anjali Menon and debutante Shankar Ramakrishnan.
These are the details of the ten shorts in the anthology films
1. Nostalgia
Director- M Padmakumar will have Dileep, Navya Nair and Babu Namboodhiri in his cast lines
2. Island Express
Debutante director Shankar Ramakrishnan's movie will have the biggest cast in this short's list with Prithviraj, Jayasurya, Rahman and Kani. This movie is cinematographed by S. Kumar.
3. Lalitham Hiranmayum
Director Shaji Kailas deals with a romantic story about a man caught in between two loving women in this short. Suresh Gopi and Jyothirmayee are in the cast of this short movie.
4. Mrithunjayam
Director- Uday Ananthan, Cast- Fahad Fazil, Thilakan, Reema Kalungal
5. Bridge
Director- Anwar Rashid, Cast- Salim Kumar, Kalpana, Santhadevi
6. Aviramam
Director- B.Unnikrishnan's movie will have Siddhique and Shwetha Menon playing the leads about a nuclear family getting affected by the recession.
7. Off Season
Director Shyama Prasad will attempt for a different comedy genre with this movie featuring Sooraj Venjaranmoodu and Vindhyan
8. Makal
Directed by Revathy, this short will deals with a plot of human trafficking. Scripted by Deedi Damodharan, the movie will feature Srinath, Sona Nair and Archana.
9. Happy Journey
IFFK award winning Director- Anjali Menon's, movie will feature Jagathy Sreekumar and Nitya Menon in a different story.
10. Puram Kazchakal
Directed by Lal Jose featuring Mammootty and Sreenivasan, this short is based on the novel by C V Sreeraman in the same title.
The film designed, promoted and produced by Renjith’s Capital Theatre will be distributed by a new company Backwater Media and Entertainments. | 
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