Sameera is Surya's Heroine

Gautham Vasudeva Menon has been on a heroine hunt for his Vaaranam Aayiram, since the launch of the film! First Deepika Padukone was approached, but she preferred to be Shah Rukh Khan's heroine, then it was Asin but she had no dates. The lovely Genelia was signed, but when the shoot did not happen on time, she opted out. However, ‘Kuthu’Ramya plays one of the heroines. So the search began all over again for the coveted heroine's role. The shoot of the second schedule of the film was to start at Berkley University in US in the first week of October. Trisha who was doing Chennayil Oru Mazhaikalam with Gautham was approached, but she had already committed her dates to Kuruvi and Abhiyum Njanum, which will go up to the year end. Gautham immediately flew to Mumbai, and met a lot of Bollywood stars like Tabu, Nandana Sen, Shamita Shetty and few others. The latest we hear is that the hot sexy siren Sameera Reddy flew down to Chennai last week, and had discussions. Gautham has sort of agreed to take her for the role of a beautiful NRI in an American university who falls for the hero. Sameera the dusky beauty of Musafir and Taxi Number 9211 fame and a few Telugu films is today transformed herself into a beautiful, even more sexy siren, after going through a fitness regime. Now it is up to Surya, to put his stamp of approval on Gautham's choice as his Vaaranam Aayiram heroine. Surya is away in Switzerland shooting a song with Asin for Vel, and should be back in Chennai by October 3. Bhanu the dress designer of the film who is also with the Vel unit will have to come down and have a costume rehearsal on Sameera before the US schedule of Vaaranam Aayiram begins from October 10.