Syam Pushkaran: We first pitched Salt N’ Pepper to Lijo Jose Pellissery

Scriptwriter Syam Pushkaran has been hailed as one of the most exciting scribes in Malayalam cinema right now – with him penning the scripts of Maheshinte Prathikaram, Mayaanadhi and also the latest release,

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Syam, however, started his career as an assistant director before making it big with his script of Salt N’ Pepper, which was directed by Aashiq Abu and co-scripted by Dileesh Nair.

In an interview to a radio station, Syam had said, “We gave our first formal narration of a script to Lijo Jose Pellissery. It was for Salt N’ Pepper and he really liked it. He said he can do it a year. But back then, we didn’t have that much time.” The movie, which starred Lal, Shwetha Menon and Asif Ali, was directed by Aashiq Abu and went on to be a superhit.