The Telugu film hit the silver screens on 19 December 1975 and was released again on 1 January 1976.
The drama film ran in 17 cinema halls in the then united Andhra Pradesh for one hundred days.
Bapayya made his directorial debut in the Bollywood film industry with the Hindi movie Dildaar (1977).
Bapayya remained active in the film industry till the mid 1990s.
Towards the end of his career, Bapayya started focusing on making Bollywood films.
The film starred Mithun Chakraborty, Gautami, Shikha Swaroop, Shafi Inamdaari, Shakti Kapoor and Anupam Kher.
It was Gautami's Hindi debut and a remake of the Malayalam flick Chithram.