After his successful debut with Oru Kal Oru Kannadi, Udhayanidhi Stalin will next be seen in director SR Prabhakaran's Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal, in which Nayanthara has been roped in to play the female lead. While Santhanam and Sunder Ramu will be seen playing important roles in the film, Saranya Ponvannan and Chaya Singh will be playing supporting roles.

The director reveals that Nayanthara will be playing a middle-class working girl, Pavithra from Coimbatore, who meets Kathirvelan and eventually falls in love with him. The shoot is currently progressing in Chennai and the team will soon move for the next schedule to Coimbatore.