The film stars Rajinikanth in the lead role, with Ambika and Radha playing his love interests and Meena as their daughter.

The film was later remade in Telugu as Bava Maradallu in 1984, in Hindi as Suhaagan in 1986, in Kannada as Midida Hrudayagalu in 1993[1] and in Bengali Bangladesh as Shesh Protikkha in 1998.

Kumaran, a hardworking but easily aggrieved and very righteous man, is in love with his first cousin Ponni.

After writing Murattu Kaalai (1980) and Pokkiri Raja (1982) which were heavy on action, Panchu Arunachalam wanted to do a softer film with the same lead actor, Rajinikanth, which became Engeyo Ketta Kural.

Due to competition from another Muthuraman-directed film Sakalakala Vallavan, released on the same day, it was less successful.

[9] Thiraignani of Kalki felt the reason for Ambika eloping and returning back reformed lacked strong reasons and added the ending of the story, which is not easy to accept, raises many problematic questions that make our heads turn gray but praised the performances of Ambika, Delhi Ganesh and Kamala Kamesh.