Santosh Srinivas alias Vasu is known for his movies Hyper and Kandireega. Mytri producers as we all know had given an advance to Pawan Kalyan to work on the remake of Theri. The team worked on the subject for many months and in this process Pawan Kalyan got busy with his political career and said he will do it later. Meanwhile instead of wasting time the producers roped in Ravi Teja in Pawan Kalyan’s place. Ravi Teja was in a dilemma on the project that needed to be started first and went ahead with Vytla’s. Now that they realized Touch Chesi Chudu and Theri has similarities, the subject is being dumped. Also a fresh story is in place now and Ravi Teja gave the green signal. Though Kandireega was a hit, Rabasa was a disaster and Hyper underperformed at the box office. So out of the recent three, one worked. The next director is Vi Anand. His Tiger did not work collections wise, Kshanam was a flop. The next was a hit..Ekkadiki pothavu chinnavada. Vi Anand’s current story is a scifi thriller and this will be the first time he is going to work with a star hero. The producers of Ravi Teja’s films have to be extra careful as they too dished out disasters. Ram Talluri’s Nela Ticket tanked and so did Mytri’s Amar Akbar Anthony. Ravi Teja is in no mood to reduce his remuneration, his producers will have to reign in the directors and the hero too has to cross check and make sure the script doesn’t lose out on logic .