 Till then, all I can say is, I'm still working hard on what my debut film should be", at an event celebrating Akkineni Nageswara Rao's birth anniversary and the success of "Manam".Later V. V. Vinayak was approached to direct this film after the release of "Alludu Seenu" (2014).Veligonda Srinivas, who penned the script for Akkineni Nagarjuna's "Dhamarukam" (2012), wrote the film's story.