Actor Rana Daggubati has set off to the jungles of Kerala for the shoot of his upcoming film, Haathi Mere Saathi. The film is an animal drama that also features Pulkit Samrat, Vishnu Vishal, Zoya Hussein, and Kalki Koechlin.

The Eros International production is titled Kaadan in Tamil and Aranya in Telugu. Helmed by Prabhu Solomon, the trilingual is being shot simultaneously in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil, with a different cast across languages. The film that highlights man-animal relationship is a story inspired by true events and a tribute to the 1971 classic, Haathi Mere Saathi, starring Rajesh Khanna and Tanuja.

While Rana, Zoya and Kalki feature in all the three language films, Pulkit’s character will be essayed by Vishnu Vishal in the Tamil and Telugu versions, along with actor Raghu Babu. The music has been composed by Shantanu Moitra, while the sound design is by Resul Pookutty.