Chiyaan Vikram's son Dhruv Vikram was all set to make his debut with Varma, the official Tamil remake of Tollywood cult hit Arjun Reddy that starred youth icon Vijay Deverakonda and Shalini Pandey, and the Tamil version was made by Bala, and had reached final stages, before calamity struck.

The film was scrapped as the producers were unhappy with the output given by Bala, following which Bala also revealed that he exited the project to protect his creative freedom, following which the movie's second version was launched. Titled Adithya Varma, the movie is directed by debutant Girisaaya.

As the movie is making steady progress, the latest update on Adithya Varma is that actor Anbudasan who had previously acted in Kolamaavu Kokila and Meesaiya Murukku has been roped in to play Dhruv's friend in the movie. Banita Sandhu and Priya Anand play the female leads in this movie which has music by Radhan and cinematography by Ravi K Chandran.