As and when Rangasthalam hit screens on March 30, Stylish Star Allu Arjun along with his better half Sneha watched the special show of the film. He contemplated to work with Sukumar then and took his proposal to Sukumar. The director also expressed his wish of working with Allu Arjun for the third time after Arya and Arya 2.
Sukumar wanted to work with Allu Arjun after completing his assignment with Prince Mahesh Babu. Thereafter, the passionate director did hectic exercise in penning two different scripts for Mahesh Babu. But then, none of the projects was given nod by Prince which resulted in Sukumar decided to go ahead with Allu Arjun's project.
In the meanwhile, some media houses indulged in various cooked up stories on Sukumar's project. One of those cooked up stories says Sukumar made a halt at Young Tiger NTR to do the movie. Since NTR said no to the project Sukumar approached Allu Arjun.
When these rumours were brought to the notice of close sources of NTR, they made it clear that even NTR was also shocked hearing them. "How can Sukumar approach me when I will be busy with Rajamouli's project for next two years? The creators of these gossips should have got some sense in cooking up such stories," NTR reportedly said to his close sources.