Actress Keerthy Suresh was last seen in Tamil in Sarkar directed by AR Murugadoss, where she acted with Vijay, and had this year received the National award for best actress for her performance as legendary actress Savithri in the movie Mahanati..

After winning National award, her first Tamil film is Penguin, directed by debutant Eashvar Karthic and produced by director Karthik Subbaraj's Stone Bench Productions. This movie will revolve around Keerthy Suresh's character and was completed in 32 days.

Penguin also stars Madhampatty Rangaraj who had debuted as a hero in the movie Mehendi circus, and the actor has revealed in a recent interview that, from Penguin he has changed his screen name to Athidev, as he was said by his well wishers to have a short and stylish screen name.