Malayalam actor-producer Noble B Thomas turns director with music video

He describes ‘Made in Heaven - Kanmani Kanmani’ as a ‘feel good’ video amid these tough times

‘Made in Heaven - Kanmani Kanmani’, a music video scripted and directed by actor-producer Noble Babu Thomas, feels more like a short film. “I have been looking for a term to describe it; a musical short film didn’t fit. So I went with ‘music video’,” he says. Released on June 16, it has garnered more than seven lakh views. The video is about a woman who takes her boyfriend home to meet her parents; it also chronicles their reaction and acceptance. Rather than a single song, the video feels like a short film as dialogues are interspersed. The eight-minute video is produced by Shaan Rahman, who also composed the music for the track sung by Benny Dayal. “The Helen team — Shaan, writer/director Mathukutty Xavier, writer Alfred Kurian Joseph, and lyricist Vinayak Sasikumar — gave me the confidence to give this a shot,” he says, of his unexpected ‘debut’ as director. Noble co-produced, co-wrote and acted in Helen, which was co-written/directed by Mathukutty. Alfred was also one of the co-writers of that film, with Shaan composing its music.