Development Jandhyala had good relations with make-up man, producer
Jayakrishna, from early in his career. When Jandhyala turned to a director from his screen-writing and dialogue-writing career, Jayakrishna used to visit his shooting regularly. Once Jandhyala narrated this story-line to Jayakrishna. When Keshavarao (then film distributor) asked to help him to find a better script and assist him in his trials to produce movies, Jayakrishna recommended him doing a movie with Jandhyala. After their initial discussions about the script and budget matters, the movie started eventually.
Casting The script demands four young actors as heroes. Jandhyala selected Pradeep for one of the four roles, to whom Jandhyala continued offering roles in every one of the films directed by him till then, from his directional debut
Mudda Mandaram. After this film, Pradeep ended his career as a film actor and later he has done many roles in television serials. For the other three roles, Jandhyala selected Naresh, Rajesh and Subhakar. Subhakar later became famous by his role in
Mayuri. Rajesh, who made his debut as the hero in Jandhyala's directorial movie
Nelavanka, and is brother of popular comedy actress
Sri Lakshmi, has been selected to do another hero character. Jandhyala conducted selections for the title role as Seetha.
Vijayashanti,
Bhanupriya,
Shobhana and many others had been rejected for the role and he selected Mahalakshmi, daughter of former actress Pushpalatha, for the title role. Pushpalatha also played a role in this film as the mother of Seetha. Movie organizer Jayakrishna offered
Sri Lakshmi, who later become a popular comedy actress in Telugu industry, a guest role in this movie. Her brother Rajesh suggested that she turn down the offer because he thought doing a cameo role while she has done heroine characters was not a good idea. Despite her brother's suggestions, she accepted the offer. Eventually the guest role became a complete comedy role, whose success paved way to her successful career as a comedy actress in Telugu movies.
Filming Filming started on 4 October 1982 in Kanaka Mahalakshmi temple,
Visakhapatnam. Most of the shooting occurred in
Visakhapatnam,
Araku Valley,
Vijayanagaram and other places around Visakhapatnam city. The film unit hired a building opposite Ramakrishna beach, Visakhapatnam and shot it as the residence of the heroes. Filming completed in 45 days and Rs.13,75,000 was spent on the movie. ==References==