Sensational rom-com Premam "malar" Sai Pallavi has been selected as Suriya’s leading heroine in the star’s 36th untitled film. This film direct by Selvaraghavan. The movie will be produced by Prabhu SR's Dream Warrior Pictures. Dream Warrior Pictures tweets "We welcome @Sai_Pallavi92 to our team of #Suriya36. @Suriya_offl @selvaraghavan @prabhu_sr @Suriya36Movie #S36Diwali2018". Later, Sai Pallavi signed director Vijay's emotional drama Karu, which is produced by Lyca Productions after the fantastic run of Premam in Chennai for more than 200 days. Karu hit the screen on February. She was signed to play the lead heroine role in Dhanush's Maari 2, which will be directed by Balaji Mohan and produced by Wunderbar Films. Suriya 36 marks Sai Pallavi's third film in Tamil after Karu and Maari 2. The makers are planning to release the film on Diwali 2018. Selvaraghavan is currently busy with the post production work of Santhanam's Mannavan Vanthanadi and will start shooting for Suriya 36 from January 2018.