Kasaba heroine Varalaxmi Sarathkumar will be next seen in Jayaram’s Aakasha Mittayee

Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, who made her debut in Malayalam through Mammootty starrer Kasaba, has bagged her next. She is playing the female lead in actor/director Samuthirakani’s debut directorial Aakasha Mittayee.

The movie starring Jayaram in the lead role is the official remake of Samuthirakani’s Tamil movie Appa in which he had also played the lead role. Varalaxmi Sarathkumar will be seen as Jayaram’s wife in the film, which has started rolling in Kochi on March 25.

Samuthirakani’s Appa was a socially relevant movie about the importance of education and the role of parents in providing the right kind of education to their children. The director has tweaked the storyline slightly according to the sensibilities of the Malayali audience.

Kalabhavan Shajon will be reprising Tambi Ramaiah’s role from the original. Samuthirakani earlier in an interview had said that the story, which is about the role of a father in a child’s life, has an universal appeal. So he wanted to make it in as many languages as possible.