Malayalam cinema's young sensation Nivin Pauly is becoming a hot prospect across South India. He is acting in a few Tamil films apart from concentrating in his home turf. His career graph is expected to soar big as he will be paring up with two long standing divas of South Indian cinema in quick succession.

As we all know, the 'Premam' star has just commenced shooting for the Malayalam film 'Hey Jude' in which he will be paired up with Trisha. This is the latter's Malayalam debut film. The film's pooja happened earlier this week.

Now sparking a huge surprise to everyone, Nivin has announced that he will be teaming up Nayanthara in Dhyan Sreenivasan's debut directorial project.

'Thattathin Marayathu' directed by Dhyan's brother Vineeth Srinivasan gave Nivin the much needed break in Malayalam cinema. The film released on July 8, 2012. Today being the fifth year of the film's release, fans organised a celebration in Kochi.

In this event, Nivin announced that he will be acting in a film directed by Vineeth's younger brother Dhyan Sreenivasan and Nayan will be the female lead of this film.

Nayanthara hailing from Kerala made her debut in Malayalam film 'Manasinakkare' in the year 2003. After that she went on to become a much sought after heroine in Tamil and Telugu film industries and till date remains the top most heroine. She continues acting in Malayalam films too and this will be the first time she will be acting with Nivin Pauly and this is going to be a refreshing pair for sure