After auditioning a bunch of young talents, Mani Shankar finalized on Sammir Dattani. "I needed someone with a vulnerable, sensitive and warm face who could pass off as 19. Sammir is 23, but he was perfect. I needed him to play the role of a boy who's picked up by an intelligence agency at 16. He will play an espionage hero," says Shankar. Sammir has taken his role as a challenge and has started preparing for it he says, "I've got to go through at least three personality changes in the film. I'm going through rigorous workshop to get into the skin of the role. And I've great support from actors like Om Puri, Suneil Shetty, Sushant Singh and Rahul Dev."