Chaitanya has worked with director Vikram Kumar twice before. One was the family drama Manam, which saw the young star act alongside his father Nagarjuna, and grandfather, Akkineni Nageshwara Rao. The film was the latter’s final film before his passing in 2014. He has also worked with the director on last year’s critically panned Thank You. The actor said that while he was apprehensive about exploring a new space, but he gave it a chance as it was being developed by Vikram Kumar.
“I went into the narration with a 50/50 mindset that it was a supernatural thriller and that was not in my comfort zone,” he says, “I went in thinking that, ‘It’s Vikram, I’m sure it will be great but I do not know if it’ll work for me’. But I was blown away by the narration and I slept over it. The next day I called him up and told him that I was doing it. It felt like a calling for me that it was time for me to push myself and give a challenge. I have never seen myself in a supernatural thriller before or in this texture of filmmaking. That’s why there was a question mark in my head.”