its been almost two years since antony varghese made a stellar debut in lijo jose pellisserys angamaly diaries the actor though seems to be in no hurry to sign films and has been taking it easy working in two projects post that with the same team tinu pappachans swathandriam artharathriyil and lijos upcoming movie jallikettu now the actor has signed a sports film titled aanaparambile world cupthe films director nikhil premraj who has also scripted the movie tells us it is a football movie that also has elements of fantasy the film has antony essaying a football player named hisham his character plays the sevens tournaments in the state the crux of the story is how he mentors a group of children and takes them to the u12 championships organised by a leading football club says the filmmaker who had worked as an associate director in kuttanpillayude sivarathritalking about the title of the feelgood sports film he says the story is set in a fictional village called aanaparambu its the place where people used to tie elephants ahead of temple festivals in kerala but as the fests lost their prominence over the years the number of elephants the place hosted also came down and the area became a football groundapart from antony varghese the movie also has balu varghese manoj k jayan and saiju kurup we will be introducing a new actress as the female protagonist whom we are yet to cast apart from them we are also in talks with a few actors from angamaly diaries he says adding that team is planning to start the shoot of the film in malappuram in septembermeanwhile antony has also signed on to play the lead in debutant director nithish sahadevs film and is in talks for anil radhakrishnan menons khamarunissa 1424130 and tinu pappachans next