Following the success of S. S. Rajamouli's 2010 Telugu film Maryada Ramanna, the rights for the film to be remade into Tamil were sold to Prasad V Potluri for 35 lakh rupees. In October 2012, the production team announced that Santhanam would play the lead role in the venture, while R. Kannan would direct the film. Kannan subsequently opted out of the film, noting that he was unhappy on the first-copy production agreement which had been put in place, and was replaced by comedian Srinath, who had previously directed Muthirai (2009).
Delays in starting the film led to reports that Santhanam would be replaced by Siva Karthikeyan in the lead role, but this proved to be untrue.The team confirmed the title would be Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham in June 2013, confirming that pre-production work was under way, with Anirudh signed on as music composer. Anirudh however dropped out of the project in early July 2013 owing to a busy schedule and was subsequently replaced by Santhosh Narayanan, who had achieved success for his work in Pizza (2012) and Soodhu Kavvum (2013).Santhosh was also replaced by Siddharth Vipin who earlier composed for Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara, apart from composing he was also selected to act in the film.
The team began shooting in mid September 2013 by filming scenes at EVP World, the amusement and theme park in Poonamallee on the Chennai to Bangalore highway.Mumbai based model Ashna Zaveri was signed on to play the leading female role, thus making her debut as a film actress. Recently the Trailer of the movie was released.
