The pimple Beauty Sai Pallavi who had begun her career with Malayalam movie Premam which became a blockbuster, later ventured into Telugu, scoring back to back Blockbuster movies with her debut Fidaa as well as the Nani starrer MCA Middle class Abbayi.
However, she had actually already starred in a small role in Dhaam Dhoom as Kangana Ranaut's friend, in Tamil. She was set to make her Tamil debut as heroine with Karu Directed by AL Vijay which is being made as a bilingual in Telugu as well as Kanam, costarring Naga Shourya and RJ Balaji.
The film was initially scheduled to release in 2017 itself but was pushed to January 26. However numerous other releases meant the movie was again lifted to March 3. However, the Tamil cinema strike meant no releases till last week. Now Karu has been rechristened as Diya and along with Kanam will simultaneously release on April 27.
