Priyamani as Siamese twins in"Charulatha".

Palakkad born Priyamani, and winner of the National Film Awardfor Best Actress for her role in theAmeer directed Tamil film ‘Paruthi Veeran’, is getting set to take up another challenging role. She acts as Siamese Twins in her next film. After her rise to prominence with ‘Paruthi Veeran’,she had a comparatively quiet time in Tamil films but her new role will make up for all that. The movie titled ‘Charulatha’ will be shown in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages and is a remake of the Thai horror film ‘Alone’.
The film is directed by Ponkumaran who used to work as assistant to K.Bhagyaraj and K.S.Ravikumar. The film, which willbe made in Kannada first, will be made in Tamil later. Yogish Dwarkish is the producer and the film is now in the post-productionworks. After the Tamil remake, there are reports indicating a Malayalam dubbed version as well. Yogish says that the story and theme are fabulous and he wants the picture to have a wide reach so asto be seen by maximum number of people. The shooting works have been completed and the Tamil version will be taken up immediately, according to Yogish.
He also said that the main artists will be retained for the Tamil version but the supporting artists will be identified from among Tamil actors. While Yogish is certain that the Malayalam versionwill be dubbed, he has not yet decided whether the Telugu film should be remade or dubbed. Yogish is also thinking about making a Hindi version and had already discussed this with Rani Mukherjee. As to the question about the choice of Rani Mukherjee, Yogish said that he was particular that a prominent Hindi actress was needed for the role and after considering Rani and Kajol, decided on Rani because of her body language. Letthe people decide after watching Priyamani’s double role.