Adarsh H Eshwarappa’s has started working on his second project, Bhinna, and it looks like he has found his Kaveri (the heroine) in Paayal Radhakrishna. Eshwarappa who is dedicating the film to legendary director Puttana Kanagal  has named the heroine after Kalpana’s character in Sharaparanjara.  

Paayal is a model turned actor, who made her Kannada debut with Bengaluru Underworld. A professional Bharatanatyam dancer, she now steps into an interesting role for Bhinna. Adarsh, who was looking for two female actors for his film has also finalised Sowmya Jaganmurthy for a pivotal role in the film. A professional dancer and actor, she is director Pawan Kumar’s wife.

Paayal and Sowmya will join actors Shashank Purushotham and Siddhartha Madhyamikaa, who are already part of the cast. With the cast now in place, the director is all set to go on floors soon.

Meanwhile, Adarsh wants to create a buzz with the film’s poster, which has an interesting tag line - ‘The broken are different’. Rockline Venkatesh’s son Yateesh Venkatesh is producing the film in association with Purple Arrow. The film with no songs has background score by Jesse Clinton, who worked with Adarsh in Shuddhi.