After a brief gap, ace Mollywood director Sathyan Anthikkad has finally announced the heroine for his new movie. Remember Kanika, the new girl in 'Five star' and second lead in Ajith's 'Varalaru'. She is now in Mollywood playing the female lead in Mammootty's historical magnum opus 'Pazhassi Raja' and also set to don the central character in this untitled movie which have Jayaram in the lead role, to be directed by Sathyan.

The movie which tells the story about a Christian family residing in the Kuuttanad area is produced by M M hamza in the banner of KalaSangham. Sathyan has already completed the scripts for this film which is expected to start by the end of this month. The usual supporting cast of every Sathyan films includes Mamukoya, Innocent, Nedumudi Venu and KPAC lalitha who will be in the cast lines of this movie too.

Maestro Ilayaraja will tune the songs for this movie which is planned to hit the screens by the first of May.

Kanika who had big time hits with the Tamil movies had shifted to Malayalam with the film 'Ennitttum', earlier in 2006.