Thanks Nevil! As you said, I started from this, have experimented few more from this. Will be posting them soon.
Thanks Ganesh. After your suggestion I experimented a bit with the midtones and the tonal spread. Please see below. Let me know if you like these version.
Version 1
Version 2
Also while working on above image I felt square crop might work better. Please see below for the same.
Best Regards,
Prashanth