National Film Award-winning Indian dancer Prabhu Deva, who is also known as actor, choreographer, and film director, is the newly added cast of the bilingual period drama Urumi.

Directed by Santhosh Sivan, Urumi is a bilingual movie in Malayalam and Tamil. Prithviraj and Genelia are signed in the lead roles as reported earlier. The story deals with a group of people, who wanted to slay the Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama.

`The Boy who wanted to kill Vasco Da Gama', is the tag line of the movie, which has Genelia in the role of a Portuguese princess.

Prabhu Deva is the new addition in the 15th century-based film. He will be seen in a very important role, according to the sources.

The script of the movie has been penned by Sankar Ramakrishnan.

-- Sampurn Wire