Nithya is a forthcoming Telugu

Telugu language

Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...

 romantic film written directed by Gautham Menon

Gautham Menon

Gautham Vasudev Menon is an Indian film director and producer. Mainly working in Tamil cinema, he has also directed Hindi and Telugu films which are remakes of his Tamil films...

, featuring Nani

Nani (actor)

Nani is an Indian film actor who mainly stars in Telugu films. After his education, he became an assistant director, he worked with Seenu Vylta and Bapu garu before working as a RJ for World Space Satellite in Hyderabad. He got an opportunity to act in an advertisement when he was offered the film...

 and Samantha

Samantha Ruth Prabhu

Samantha Ruth Prabhu is an Indian film actress and model who appears in Telugu and Tamil films. Born to Malayali and Telugu parents, Samantha was brought up in Chennai and pursued a career in modeling during her late teens...

 in the lead roles. The venture is produced by Kumar and Jayaram of RS Infotainment and will have music composed by A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman

Allah Rakha Rahman is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and philanthropist. Described as the world's most prominent and prolific film composer by Time, his works are notable for integrating eastern classical music with electronic music sounds, world music genres and...

 with cinematography by M. S. Prabhu. Ram had walked out of the film previously and was replaced by Nani and the film is primarily being made in Tamil as Neethaane En Ponvasantham

Neethaane En Ponvasantham

Neethaane En Ponvasantham is a forthcoming Tamil romantic drama film written directed by Gautham Menon, featuring Jiiva and Samantha in the lead roles. The venture is produced by Kumar and Jayaram of RS Infotainment and will have music composed by A. R. Rahman with cinematography by M. S....

with Jiiva replacing Nani and in Hindi with Aditya Roy Kapoor in the lead role.

Cast

• Nani
  Nani (actor)
  Nani is an Indian film actor who mainly stars in Telugu films. After his education, he became an assistant director, he worked with Seenu Vylta and Bapu garu before working as a RJ for World Space Satellite in Hyderabad. He got an opportunity to act in an advertisement when he was offered the film...
  
   as Raghu
• Samantha
  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  Samantha Ruth Prabhu is an Indian film actress and model who appears in Telugu and Tamil films. Born to Malayali and Telugu parents, Samantha was brought up in Chennai and pursued a career in modeling during her late teens...
  
   as Nithya
• Anupama Kumar
  Anupama Kumar
  Anupama Prakash Kumar , better known as Anupama Kumar, is an Indian film actress and model. Having appeared in more than 300 ad films, she made her debut as an actress in the 2004 Hindi film Kyun...! Ho Gaya Na and got widely noticed for her performance in Tamil film Pokkisham, Vamsam, Ayyanar,...
  
  
• Ravi Raghavendra

Production

In January 2011 producer Bellamkonda Suresh announced that he had signed on Gautham Menon, Ram

Ram (actor)

- Personal life :Ram was born in Hyderabad, India, on May 15, 1988. He grew up in Chennai and attended Chettinad Vidhyashram school, Mandaveli. He is the nephew of Telugu producer Sravanthi Ravi Kishore.- Career :...

 and Samantha

Samantha Ruth Prabhu

Samantha Ruth Prabhu is an Indian film actress and model who appears in Telugu and Tamil films. Born to Malayali and Telugu parents, Samantha was brought up in Chennai and pursued a career in modeling during her late teens...

 to feature in his next production, a bilingual in Tamil and Telugu, citing that the film would begin shoot from May 2011. Menon decided to replace Ram and use Jiiva in the Tamil version of the film with Samantha

Samantha Ruth Prabhu

Samantha Ruth Prabhu is an Indian film actress and model who appears in Telugu and Tamil films. Born to Malayali and Telugu parents, Samantha was brought up in Chennai and pursued a career in modeling during her late teens...

 reprising her role and Menon's "regular crew" of music composer A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman

Allah Rakha Rahman is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and philanthropist. Described as the world's most prominent and prolific film composer by Time, his works are notable for integrating eastern classical music with electronic music sounds, world music genres and...

 and film editor Anthony

Anthony (film editor)

Anthony is a Tamil film editor. He has worked in over twenty Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu language films. This makes him one of the few editors to have worked for all the 3 biggest film industries in India.-Personal life:Anthony studied BA Lit in Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Chennai...

were all a part of both film.

The film was began shoot from August 29, 2011 with a photo shoot held along with the Tamil version. In late September 2011, Ram walked out of the film unhappy over the way his portions were shot third after Jiiva's and Aditya Roy Kapoor's scenes.