Malayalam actor and former mimicry legend Jayaram's talented son Kalidas is making his debut in Malayalam cinema today. His first movie in Mollywood, Poomaram, is reaching theatres today, and Malayalam movie lovers are quite excited about it. Kalidas Jayaram had worked earlier in Malayalam cinema as a child artiste in a couple of his father's movies. Kalidas' first movie was Sathyan Anthikad's Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal, where he played Jayaram's son on reel too. His innocent and cherubic act won him a lot of praise. However, it was his second movie, Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum that showed the audience the range of his performance, even as a child. He won the National Award for the Best Child Artiste for his performance in the movie.

After taking a break for studies, Kalidas made his debut as an adult in Tamil cinema first. However, his first move Meen Kuzhambum Mann Paanaiyum failed to win over the masses and the critics. But his second Tamil movie, Oru Pakka Kathai, scheduled to release later this year, has caught the attention of the movie-goers thanks to its trailers and premise.

Coming back to Poomara, the movie is directed by Abrid Shine who previously made hits like 1983 and Action Hero Biju. A song from the movie that was released a year ago had gone viral and gave Poomaram that much-needed attention. As the movies is out today, Malayalam celebs like Mohanlal, Dulquer Salmaan, Nivin Pauly, Vineeth Sreenivasan and Priya Mani have taken to Twitter to wish the young lad all the very best. Here are their tweets,

Interestingly, Mohanlal's son Pranav had made his debut in Aadhi a couple of weeks back and it was met with resounding success. Now people are comparing Kalidas' debut with that of Pranav's and seeing who will win the race. Not a fan of this comparison, but even we are curious about this. Are you?

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