[1][2] Shanmugapandian, then a Visual Communications student at Loyola College, Chennai, began taking dance lessons and martial arts practice, to get into better physical shape before his first film.

Vijayakanth initially considered remaking the Telugu film, Brindavanam (2010) as well other projects directed by K. S. Ravikumar and Hari,[3] but later opted for an original script written by Naveen, with dialogues by Velumani.

The second schedule of the film's shoot was held in Kumbakonam for three weeks during when a song involving 1000 junior artistes and 200 dancers was shot for 6 days.

However, during production in September 2014, Santhoshkumar Rajan left the project after falling out with the producers, complaining that there was too much interference in the scripting and film-making process.

In 8 December 2014, Silambarasan, Andrea Jeremiah and Remya Nambeesan recorded a song for the film, which had lyrics written by Parthy Bhaskar.