Meet the new heroine of Dhuruvangal 16 fame Karthick Naren’s Naragasooran

23-year-old Karthik Naren took both the audience and industry insiders by surprise with his debut directorial Dhuruvangal 16. The whodunit thriller starring Rahman in the lead emerged as a big sucesss, both critically and commercially. For his next film, the promising filmmaker has assembled a star studded team.

The movie titled as Naragasooran features Aravind Swamy, Malayali actor Indrajith Sukumaran and Telugu actor Sundeep Kishan and Shriya Saran in major roles. Latest addition to the team is actress Aathmika, who made an impressive debut with Hiphop Tamizha’s Meesaya Murukku.

Director Karthick Naren himself announced her casting with a post in his social media space. He tweeted,

“Happy to share that @aathmikaa of ‘Meesaya Murukku’ is onboard #Naragasooran as one of the female leads. Shoot from September 16th.”

According to the director, Naragasooran will be an dark and emotionally intense suspense drama. The movie comes with the tagline ‘The tale of a fallen demon’. Naragasooran is being jointly funded by filmmaker Gautham Menon under his banner Ondraga Entertainment. Impressed by Karthick Naren’s debut movie, Gautham Menon himself came forward to produce the youngster’s second movie.

Karthick Naren has retained almost the same team of technicians for his new movie. Sujith Sarang will be cranking the camera and Sreejith Sarang in charge of the edits. Oppam and Maya fame Ron Ethan Yohaan has been roped in to handle the music department.