Director Vikram Kumar is an established filmmaker who's been picky yet good films in languages like Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and English. His last movie in Telugu was Hello, 2017 starring Akhil and Kalyani Priyadharshan. There was a buzz on the internet that Vikram would be directing Nagarjuna in his next, after his Gang Leader with Natural Star Nani. To get it confirmed, we had contacted the director and got it clarified that there is no truth to the news doing rounds on the internet. He also stated that he'd love to work with him again.

After his 2017 release, Vikram Kumar's first movie in 2019 is Gang Leader with Natural Star Nani as the lead. When the project title was initially announced on Nani's birthday, there was a lot of mixed reviews as there is a Megastar Chiranjeevi's 1991 movie of the same name.

In the telephonic conversation the Manam director added that the Gang Leader crew is planning for an August 30th release and that the post-production work are on full steam now. Touted to be a comedy entertainer where Nani will be playing the leader of a gang of five girls who commit petty crimes.