Surabhi Lakshmi is ‘Padma’; Anoop Menon welcomes the actress on board

National award-winning actress Surabhi Lakshmi has roped in to play the lead in Anoop Menon’s maiden production venture ‘

Padma

’. Actors Manju Warrier and Dulquer Salmaan have announced the exciting update through their respective social media handles.<div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/DQSalmaan/posts/3106309819471475" data-width="500" data-show-text="true"><blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/DQSalmaan/posts/3106309819471475" class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><p>Presenting the firecracker the national award winner, the very endearing Surabhi Lakshmi as the title character in Anoop menon&#039;s &quot;PADMA&quot; ! Looking super cool !!!Surabhi Lakshmi | Anoop Menon</p>Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DQSalmaan/">Dulquer Salmaan</a> on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/DQSalmaan/posts/3106309819471475">Saturday, 23 January 2021</a></blockquote></div>Anoop Menon welcomed Surabhi Lakshmi on board and shared, “Presenting the very talented national award winner Surabhi Lakshmi as our PADMA.”Surabhi Lakshmi was elated to receive a warm welcome and the actress also shared that the project is very close to her heart. “It's an extremely proud and delightful moment. This is so close to my heart that now it's not just me, it's us. Me and my PADMA. Thank you Anoopetta for trustfully giving me your Padma and letting me make her mine. Thank you Dulquer, Manju Warrier and all those who showed the love. Love to my entire crew for their support. Proudly and loudly I want to say, I own her (sic),” Surabhi Lakshmi said, in her Instagram post.

Anoop Menon, who has proved his excellence in acting and screenwriting has recently announced his debut into production. He is also about to mark his debut in filmmaking with the upcoming

Malayalam

movie ‘King Fish’.Meanwhile, Surabhi Lakshmi who has won the

National Film Award

for best actress for her performance in ‘Minnaminungu’ was last seen in ‘Ulta’, which was released in 2019.