Lalitham Sundaram (transl. Simple is beautiful) is a Malayalam-language comedy-drama film directed by Madhu Warrier in his directorial debut. The film stars Biju Menon, Manju Warrier, Saiju Kurup, Deepti Sati and Anu Mohan. Manju Warrier co-produced the film with Kochumon under the banner Manju Warrier Productions.
The film was announced by Mammootty and Mohanlal in their respective social media accounts in January 2020. The puja of the film was on February 18, 2020. P Sukumar does the cinematography for the film along with Gautham Sankar and Lijo Paul handles the editing. Bineesh Chandran is the Art director of the movie and Sakhi Elsa is the costume designer. The National Film Award winning, choreographer, Kala Master is the dance choreographer of the movie.
The principal photography of the film began in February 2020 at Peermade and Vandiperiyar The film was planned to be shot on a single schedule, but the shooting came to a sudden hault due to the COVID-19 Pandemic in March, 2020. The crew had completed about half of the shooting before the lockdown. After about nine month’s lockdown, the shooting was resumed in December 2020. As there was a long gap between the two schedules the director says that all the actors had to begin from the scratch again. The second schedule was shot in Peermade and Ernakulam. [18] The filming was wrapped up in January 2021.