[2][3][4][5] It starred M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, M. R. Santhanalakshmi, Serugulathur Sama, T. S. Balaiya, N. S. Krishnan, T. A. Madhuram and P. G. Venkatesan.

Ambikapathy, along with Chintamani were the greatest hits of 1937[2][6] and made critics regard Bhagavathar as the "first superstar of Tamil cinema".

Dungan who did not know Tamil, used Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as an inspiration and incorporated some of its scenes in the script.

The writer for the film was the Tamil scholar Thanigachalam working under the pen name Elangovan.

The lines describing Romeo taking leave of Juliet – "Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast", were translated by Elangovan as Thookkam Un Kangalai Thazhuvattum!

The king objects to their love and insists on testing Ambikapathy's literary mettle before judging his worth.

The test given to Ambikapathi is that he should write and sing a hundred poems in the field of Puram (dealing with war and politics).

Ambikapathi begins the test in the King's court with a Kadavul Vaazhthu (invocation to God).

Dungan's love scenes, Bhagavathar's singing and Elangovan's dialogue made the film a talked after success.