Premam star Nivin Pauly has been roped in to play the lead in great cinematographer Rajeev Ravi's fourth venture as director, in a biopic of the legendary Malayali playwright, actor, director and humanist N Narayana Pillai, popularly NN Pillai.

Around midnight last night, his tweet read: "Extremely happy to be associated for an exciting project master craftsman #RajeevRavi! This is truly an honour! 😊".

This is the first biopic film of Nivin Pauly, and we are really excited to see how this will turn out to be.