Mohanlal's next film BALETTAN will be released during the Onam festival. For this film the actor has almost lost eight kilos. Audiences will get to see a new and good-looking Mohanlal. The film is being shot in and around Shornur.

BALETTAN is a family oriented film. It also stars Devyani. The highly sentimental film is aimed at the family audiences. The story is about Balachandran aka Balettan. He has a beautiful wife Radhika (Devyani) and two children. Everything is fine until he gets in an uneasy situation because of his friends. How he solves the situation forms the crux of the film.

Girish Puthencherry pens the songs of this film. M Jayachandran scores the music. Mohanlal has worn 'mundu' throughout the film to give it a common man from Kerala touch.