Kalidas Jayaram's Many Many Happy Returns opens December 4

Many Many Happy Returns, the Kalidas Jayaram romantic comedy directed by Ahammed Khabeer, opens in theatres on December 4 in Tamil and Malayalam. The makers announced the date with a new poster, and Romeo Pictures will release it across Tamil Nadu.

The film is built around love, friendship, family and the memories people carry long after the moment has passed. The makers pitch it as a story about relationships that seem finished but never quite leave, the kind of nostalgia that sits somewhere between funny and painful.

It is a change of gear for Ahammed Khabeer, who made June (2019) and Madhuram (2021) and then the first two seasons of the police series Kerala Crime Files. He wrote this one with Jobin John Varghese and produces it with Hassan Rasheed under Monkey Business. Kalidas, who said at the June wrap that the set let him be completely vulnerable and honest in front of the camera, leads a cast that includes Lal, Boban Alummoodan and Sanju Sanichen.

Govind Vasantha composes the music. Jithin Stanislaus shoots, Mahesh Bhuvanend edits, Vishnu Govind handles sound, Mashar Hamsa designs the costumes, Ronex Xavier does the make-up and Anu Viswanathan choreographs.

Khabeer has been unusually open about what it means to him. “This film is personal,” he wrote on the last day of the shoot. “Most special and memorable one I’ve made.”