Valmiki is the latest film of Varun Tej with Harish Shankar as director. The writer-director has made it a point that he get the right version of Jigarthanda remake script ready for Telugu audiences after Duvvada Jagannadam and got Varun Tej approval.
Now the director is looking for second hero role in the film which was done by Siddharth in original. He said to have talked to Sree Vishnu and Naga Shourya about the possibility of them playing the character in the film.
The latest update is that he approached Atharvaa for the role and the young Kollywood actor is looking at the possibility of him being a part of the film, it seems.
Still nothing has been concretely locked. The 14 Reels plus team is tightlipped about the project while the speculations are going around. Devi Sri Prasad started composing music as per the sources.