Lady superstar Nayanthara is back to Mollywood with a good number of movies after Nivin Pauly starrer ‘Love Action Drama'. The south siren, who recently wrapped the shooting of Kunchako Boban starrer ‘Nizhal’, will play the female lead in Fahadh Faasil’s next ‘Pattu’ directed by Alphonse Puthren.

The director himself announced the news through his official social media pages.

“Happy to announce that Lady Superstar Nayanthara is joining our feature film ‘Paattu’. The hero is Fahadh Faasil and the heroine is Nayanthara. Will announce further updates about cast and crew soon,” wrote Alphonse on his Facebook page.

Zacharia Thomas and Alwin Antony will produce the movie. ‘Pattu’ will mark Alphonse Puthren’s third movie after ‘Neram’ and ‘Premam’. Apart from director, Alphonse Puthren has turned writer, music director and editor for the movie.

On the work front, Nayanthara was last seen in the Tamil movie ‘Mookuthi Amman’. ‘Netrikann’, ‘Annathe’ and ‘Kaathuvakkula Rendu Kaadhal’ are her upcoming Tamil movies.

Fahadh was last seen in the thriller movie ‘C U Soon’. According to reports, he is currently engaged in the shooting of ‘Joji’. ‘Malik’,’Irul’, ‘Thankam’ and ‘Malayankunju’ are his upcoming movies.