Nayantara with an all new look, kick-started her Sekhar Kammula bilingual in Telugu and Tamil on April 28 in Hyderabad. Initially for the female lead, the director approached actress Anushka Shetty, but later Anushka Shetty opted out because her magnum opus projects dates directly clash with this film. Nayantara was given a bounded script with the look of her costume was given.
She has an all new look in the film and the actress has given bulk dates for the film. Her character name is Anamika. The untitled film is being co-produced by Endemol India, Logline Productions and Select Media Holdings. The shoot on Sunday in the dusty streets of Old City, Hyderabad. Instead of Kolkata in the original, Sekhar chose Old City where the film will be set.
Sekhar was planning to complete the project under 50 days by shooting continuously in old Hyderabad. Sekhar in an interview had said: “Since this untitled film is a bilingual, there`s lot of work involved even before we start shooting. I want to shift all focus on the project which will be adapted and customised to the local sensibilities.