It was later remade in Telugu as Political Rowdy in 2005 with Mohan Babu, Charmee Kaur and Prakash Raj enacting the roles of Sathyaraj, Rathi and Napoleon respectively.

A naughty college student Priya grabs Tirupati's attention though a beauty contest, and there he falls in love with her and proposes to her.

Sify wrote "Sathyaraj's Adithadi starts off as a rollkicking comedy that peters out towards the end.

It is a black comedy, a movie that makes light of serious and usually morbid situations with their own level of hilarity and cleverness".

[5] The Hindu wrote "You could double up in laughter, guffaw at the hero's audacity or wrinkle your nose in disgust at certain points, but surely you cannot ignore the film that reminds you so much of the `villainous' Satyaraj of yore.