The life of Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai, one of the brave journalists Kerala has ever seen, is to be made a film. Pramod Payyannur, the director of Balyakalasakhi, will be directing the film. The film is scripted by Sebastian Paul, former MP and a senior journalist of Kerala. The latest sensation Tovino Thomas will be enacting the role of Swadeshabhimani. Initial discussions of the film are going on and it will start rolling once the dates of Tovino are obtained.

The big budget film recreates the period from 1878 to 1916. The story has many historic moments and depicts the time he was exiled from Travancore till his death. Paul completed the script after a long study. Paul said the film would be a cinematic expression of Swadeshabhimani’s life.