K Balachander's Kavithalaya is launching a new Tamil film, 'Idhaya Thirudan', with Jayam Ravi and and Mumbai's model Kaamna in the lead roles. The film has story, dialogue and direction by Saran.

Balachander will light the traditional lamp on April 13 to commence the shooting of the film.

Like all other Saran's films, this too will have lyrics by Vairamuthu and music by Bharadwaj. The last film involving this trio was Vasool Raja MBBS.

Saran belongs to the Balachander school. His earlier films were 'Kadhal Mannan', 'Amarkkalam', 'Parthen Rasithen', 'Gemini', 'Jay Jay', 'Vasool Raja MBBS' and 'Attagasam'.

The heroine was selected from the Internet. Pics of more than 100 models were studied before the director finally okayed Kaamna.

'Idhaya Thirudan' has Vani Viswanath, Nasser, Prithviraj, Kalpana, Kaka Radhakrishnan, Gnanasambandan, Jayachandran, Madan Bob, Crazy Mohan, Meera Krishnan, Lollu Santhanam and M S Baskar in the cast.

Pushpa Kandaswamy is the producer. Diagoues are provided by Crazy Mohan.