It was officially announced recently that Tamil director Mohan Raja will helm Chiru 153 (tentative title), the official Telugu remake of Mohanlal's Malayalam movie Lucifer. Now, it has been revealed that Chiranjeevi will begin shooting for the movie from 2021 and join the sets post Sankranthi which falls in January next year.

Chiru153 will be jointly produced by NV Prasad and Ram Charan under NVR Cinema and Konidela Production Company respectively. An official announcement on the rest of the cast and crew is yet to be made.