The song "appadi podu" became a super hit and popular among the non Tamil audience too...
At Mumbai's Aurora cinema a group of eunuchs would come daily with Pooja Thali to watch the film for the song Aapdi Pode.Before the film starts they would put Tikka on the screen,once the song came on they would dance joyfully in front of the screen and would leave the theater after the song got over.
The nationally hit song "Appadi Podu" was sung by KK who gave numerous hits in Hindi language apart from Tamil language.
This is the first Tamil film to gross 50Crores worldwide beating Super Star Rajinikanth's Padaiyappa
This movie was a remake of telugu movie okkadu which mahesh babu plays a lead role directed by Guna Shekar.