Amitabh Bachchan flew down from Mumbai to Coimbatore on June 29 and motored down to Ooty for the shoot of his first Malayalam film Kandahar. Big B tweeted: "Off to work in Malayalam film with one of the finest talents in the country, Mohanlal." Two of the finest actors in Indian cinema, Amitabh Bachchan and Mohanlal, are coming together for the first time in Malayalam in Major Ravi's Kandahar. The shoot with Bachchan lasted five days. Bachchan said he is very nostalgic about Ooty because he shot many of his films there.