After much changes in is lead cast, the new project on the pipeline, the remake of 'Chattakari' has finalised its lead girl. As of now Poorna aka Shamna Kasim will be the one who will be trying to do justice to the role played in the original by none other than Lakshmi.

Shamna who hadn't yet fetched any big role in Malayalam will be taking this as a boon, which can make her dreams of making big in Mollywood successful. 'Chattakari' will be her first major project in Malayalam, though she had done the female lead in half a dozen movies in Tamil. The movie to be produced by Revathy Kalamandir will be also the launchpad of a new director, Santhosh Sethumadhavan, the son of director Sethumadhavan.

Initially it was rumoured that actress like Mythili or Nithya Menon would be in the title role. But the movie which demand some amount of skin show and sensuous scenes was later turned down by both these lead players of current day Mollywood, which forced the makers to look for alternatives.