The director, Padma magan, approached many leading heroines. But they all refused his offer. Why did they refuse an offer when a movie is heroine centric which is very rare in Indian cinemas? It's because the character (we believe Ammu) is a prostitute. But didn't we have lead ladies of Bollywood do these kinds of roles. But the difference is - this character in Ammuvagiya Naan gets involved in prostitution not for money but for self pleasure. This made the lead ladies to reject the offer. They would have visualized what they would get from the women's organizations and political parties if they had taken up this role. Images of Kushboo and Suhasini Manirathnam would have flashed in their minds.

So how did they get hold of a heroine? The director continues, we were without heroine for more than 2 months and finally met Bharathi who agreed to do the role. Bharathi is making her debut and another interesting fact is she speaks Tamil fluently and hails from Coimbatore. The director was all praise for Bharathi and assures that she would soon climb the ladder of success. The director signed off by saying this movie would be in the caliber of Moondram Pirai (?). Is there a forecast for some storm from political and women's organization building up? Let's wait till this movie gets released.