Summer in Bethlehem, directed by Sibi Malayil, is a Malayalam film with a superstar cast that became a huge success. The film, which hit the screens in 1998, was re-released on December 12. Summer in Bethlehem is once again receiving good responses in the theatres. Now, director Sibi Malayil has spoken in an interview about casting Suresh Gopi and Jayaram in the film.

"Summer in Bethlehem was originally intended to be made in Tamil. Prabhu was chosen to play the character Dennis. However, that project did not work out. When that film was made in Malayalam, the first option to play Dennis was Suresh Gopi. Suresh was chosen in a single day. Suresh Gopi was free then. Until then, Suresh had mostly done police roles.

Suresh said he would play Dennis for a change. I watched the film many time

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