Richa
Pallod
of
Shahjahan
fame
has
been
chosen
as
Mammootty's
heroine
in
Daddy
Cool.
Richa,
a
model
turned
actress,
has
acted
in
Hindi,
Tamil
and
Telugu
films.
Her
films
in
Tamil
include
include
Something
Something
...
Unakkum
Enakkum,
Uyirodu
Uyiraga,
Shahjahan
and
many
more.
She
has
also
appeared
in
many
ads
and
has
featured
in
several
music
videos
also.
Daddy
Cool,
to
be
directed
by
debutant
director
Aashiq
Abu,
is
scheduled
to
start
next
year
and
tells
the
story
of
a
cricket-loving
father
and
son.
Richa
started
her
acting
career
as
a
child
artist
in
Lamhe
(1991).
Again
she
acted
in
Pardes
(1997);
after
a
gap
of
three
years,
she
debuted
in
Telugu
as
heroine
and
won
the
Filmfare
Telugu
Award
for
Best
Actress
for
her
performance
in
Nuvve
Kavali.
From
then
on,
she
appeared
on
screen
in
all
the
South
Indian
languages
at
regular
intervals.
In
Daddy
Cool,
Richa
appears
as
Annie,
wife
of
a
Crime
Branch
officer
(Mammootty).
Daddy
Cool
will
be
produced
by
Alwin
Antony
under
the
banner
of
Wall
Green
Productions.
The
film,
which
will
start
shooting
by
February
2009,
is
expected
to
be
Mammootty"s
midsummer
release.