This movie was remade in Hindi as Guru (1989), starring Mithun Chakraborty and Sridevi Kapoor in double role, and went on to become a blockbuster in Hindi as well. The film was dubbed in Telugu as Khiladi.
A famous dialogue 'thagadu thagadu' delivered by the villain Sathyaraj went viral during that period.
This film was a blockbuster and completed 125-day run at the box office.
The film has Kamal Haasan playing an undercover cop, like old MG Ramachandran in Kaavalkaran (1967) and Idhayakkani (1975).
The 1985 blockbuster movie 'Kakki Chattai' starring Kamal Hassan, Ambika and Sathyaraj is being digitally remastered and released on 23rd of March 2018.