The Confession: Nana Patekar's next with Ananth Mahadevan gets a release date

Updated On: 22 August, 2025 07:36 AM IST | Mumbai | Upala KBR

Ananth Mahadevan and Nana Patekar’s The Confession is all set for a December release. The film is based on the 1966 Madatharuvi case. Shot in 2022, the film was supposed to be the actor’s first theatrical release post the MeToo case

(From left) Ashish Vidyarthi and Nana Patekar in ‘The Confession’

Filmmaker Ananth Mahadevan may have had two releases this year, but he isn’t quite done. After The Storyteller and Phule, the director is readying The Confession for a December release. The Nana Patekar-starrer is based on the 1966 Madatharuvi case in which Father Benedict Onamkulam was accused of killing Mariyakutty, a widow.

Mahadevan, who shot the film in Goa in late 2022, says that the case had intrigued him from the time he first read about it. With The Confession, he wanted to examine the story from the priest’s perspective. “It was a sensational case that happened in Kerala. Father Benedict became the first priest in India to be condemned to death. The catch was that the priest had a confession by Mariyakutty, but bound by his faith, he would not reveal it in the court. What happens after [his initial conviction] forms the film’s crux,” says the director.

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