Tovino Thomas and Basil Joseph celebrate Minnal Murali's award win at The Asian Academy award win together

Director Basil Joseph who recently won the best director at this year's Asian Academy Awards held in Singapore has been receiving an outpouring of support and well wishes from celebrities like Mohanlal, Mammootty, and Prithviraj.

Tovino Thomas who played the lead in the movie along with members of the cast and crew celebrated with Basil Joseph.

Taking to Instagram, Tovino shared a few pictures from the celebration saying how proud of Basil Joseph he was and wishing him continued success. The actor ended the post by saying that this is only of the few serious posts he has made about friends.

The two have known each other their whole career having previously collaborated for the critically and commercially successful Godha and even acted together in a few movies, share a strong friendship, which is clear to anyone who saw their promotional interview together for Minnal Murali .

Minnal Murali was the first superhero movie from the Malayalam movie industry and was a critical and commercial success throughout the country thanks to it being a Netflix exclusive.

In the movie, Tovinio Thomas plays a young tailor from a small village, who gains superpowers after being struck by lightning but he soon discovers that he is not the only one who has powers and must stop them after they start using their powers to hurt people.

Minnal Murali is the first in a planned franchise, with the sequel expected to go into production in 2025. The movie is produced by Sophia Paul under the banner of Weekend Blockbusters with a budget of around twenty crores.

The cast of the movie includes Tovino Thomas, Guru Somasundaram, Aju Varghese, Vasisht Umesh, Femina George, Shelly Kishore, Harisree Ashokan, and Baiju.

Basil Joseph and Tovino Thomas are currently shooting a movie together in which they will be co-stars. 

Minnal Murali is currently streaming on Netflix.