This is the third film for Vamsy as a director after "Manchu Pallaki" (1982) and "Sitaara" (1984). After "Sitaara", producer Kamineni Prasad approached Vamsy and gave him an advance for making the next film with him. He was fine with any story. He just wanted an outline of the story. Vamsy thought of making a suspense film. He was interested in this genre from his childhood. He recollected a Kannada film "Aparichita" (1978) he watched some time back. It was completely shot in a forest. He also wanted to write a similar story line. He had an outline of the story. He worked with several script writers, but he was not satisfied with them. Then he tried to write the story as a novel. At the same time, Indira Gandhi was assassinated and there was unrest in the country and all the shootings were cancelled. In this time period, he completed the novel and showed it to the producers, and they liked it.