Kalidas Jayaram has enjoyed a good rapport with the OTT platforms in India as some of his acclaimed projects like Putham Pudhu Kaalai and Paava Kadhaigal won a lot of acclaims and enjoyed a good run on Amazon Prime and Netflix respectively.
Roots is a new Malayalam OTT platform that is created under the guidance of MT who is one of the most celebrated writers in the Malayalam film fraternity.
Kalidas Jayaram and Karthika Nair the main lead in ‘Backpacker’ while the title is directed by Jayaraj. Shivjit Padmanabhan, Ullas Pandalam, Jayakumar, and Sabitha Jayaraj also play pivotal roles in this film.
All those people who have seen a healthy dose of titles like Five Feet Apart and Fault in our Stars with its inspirational yet heart breaking journey about life will surely connect to this film. Backpackers is the story of two cancer survivors who go on a journey to tick of all the things that are there on their bucket list.
The backdrop scenes of Backpackers is shot in such a surrounding that it will keep you hooked to it beautiful surrounding as well as the poignant message that it tries to portray throughout the film. Jayaram had approached an oncologist Dr. Gangadharan because he wanted to do a film where two cancer patients fall in love at a hospital. Jayaram was interested in knowing more about the inner details of the disease when the doctor narrated to him a story that was similar to what the filmmaker had in mind thus backpackers was created based on a true story.
Backpacker is a story of overcoming the odds and finding love in the most unimaginable places of all. the film will premiere on Roots from 10th February.