Rarely does a young director have the chance to helm a big-budget movie with big-name actors under the umbrella of a major studio. Despite the failure of his previous film, Mr. Majnu, venky atluri was given the chance to helm Sir/Vaathi, starring Dhanush. A strong production company like sithara Entertainments, which can allocate any budget the filmmaker desires, and a celebrity like Dhanush, who is also a wonderful actor, provide venky atluri with the opportunity to direct a multilingual movie.
Any filmmaker can make a decent movie with this resources and talent combo. Now it is entirely up to venky atluri to make a quality, enjoyable movie. He has the best chance right now to make an impression and rejoin the game. It will be exceedingly challenging for him to set up a huge like this again in his career if he fails this time. In plain English, it may be described that he is in a life-or-death position. This time, venky atluri cannot afford to fail.
However, there are also a negative buzz as all telugu directors failed miserably with tamil Heroes and the recent example is Vamshi Paidipally with Vijay and that has been one of the colossal disasters and the movie is an outright cringe material.