After almost two decades, a Sanskrit movie, depicting the life of 17th century Keralite poet-scholar Unnayi Warrier, is getting ready and is expected to hit the screens by September this year. 

When completed, this will be the third Sanskrit film in the history of Indian cinema. Award-winning director Vinod Mankara will be helming the film in the "language of Gods", taking the path trodden by legendary film maker late G V Iyer, who has the credit of making the first two Sanskrit films. 

Titled "Priyamanasam", the one-and-half hour-long period film revolves around the mental conflicts and agonies experienced by Warrier while he had penned his magnum opus "Nalacharitham" aattakkatha (Kathakali play). 

The shooting of the movie will begin this week and it is scheduled to be released in the coming September. Mankara says besides his love for Sanskrit, an intense desire to do something to revive the almost 'dead' language made him think on the lines of directing a movie in Sanskrit.