Directors Pushkar and Gayathri initially announced their project as Quarter Cutting drawing the attention of many. The Tamil Nadu Government had announced tax sops for films with Tamil names and everyone wondered if the director couple would forego that. Finally, it emerged that they wanted the name to be popular among the movie buffs before changing it to Va. So why did Va replace the earlier title? It has now become clear that Va is the Tamil word for ¼ or Quarter Cutting.