“Happy to announce my upcoming movie ’12th MAN’ with #JeethuJoseph, produced by @antonypbvr under the banner @aashirvadcine,” wrote Mohanlal on Twitter. The poster of the film shows the actor standing in front of a huge mansion in a field. This image has that eerie mysterious quality that suits the intense drama well.

Mohanlal and Jeethu Joseph worked together for the first time in 2013 on Drishyam, followed by the sequel, released earlier this year. A new project titled Ram is also in the works. Apparently, 12th Man will only begin on floors once Ram is complete.

In addition to these interesting projects, Mohanlal is also working on Bro Daddy with Prithviraj Sukumaran. This film will feature Meena, Prithviraj, Kalyani Priyadarshan, Lalu Alex, Murali Gopy, Kaniha, and Soubin Shahir. In recent news, the Malayalam actor has also announced the release date for his highly anticipated movie Marakkar: Arabhikadalinte Simham. The film will be released on August 12 in celebration of Onam.

The release date of Marakkar Arabikadalinte Simham was scheduled for March 26, 2020, just a few days before the nationwide lockdown was implemented. “I was lucky. Just imagine, if I had released the film and the lockdown was imposed one week after that, it would have been a disaster. Thank god that did not happen,” director Priyadarshan said in a statement.

Modi was speaking at an event to make the sixth anniversary of the Digital India programme’s launch in July, 2015. One of the marquee programme’s for the first as well as the second term of the government, Digital India is a set of initiatives meant to encourage the uptake of services and commerce over the internet.

On Thursday, Modi said gain from such initiatives will further emerge as India bridges the gap between services and people’s access to them. “This presents a massive opportunity for India, together we will be successful in making this decade India’s techade,” Modi said.

“The digital India mission has enabled the implementation of the one nation, on ration card and helped ease access to services for millions of people during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed all states and Union territories to implement the ‘One Ration Card’ scheme by July 31. The singular ration card system has been looked at as a crucial technology driven solution at a time when rural migrants were stranded at their places of work due to the Covid-19 lockdown.

Interacting with the beneficiaries of Digital India schemes, Modi said direct benefit transfer helped send money to crores of people. “At a time when developed countries were unable to send aid to their citizens due to the lockdown, India was sending thousands of crores of rupees directly to the bank accounts of the people…”