[1] It is the first road movie in Malayalam which pivots on a theft that occurs in a bus and stars Prem Nazir, Sheela and Adoor Bhasi.
Pillai sends Jayasree to Kozhikode with two bundles of currency notes worth Rs.
25,000 rupees to be paid to his partners KBS Nair and Abdul Kader as part of the profit share.
He immediately takes the driver's seat, reverses, changes the destination board to Thiruvananthapuram and speeds in that direction.
The police find the fake currency, but cleverly hands over the entire money to Jayasree.
[1] A real life incident that occurred at Cherthala in Alappuzha district of Kerala inspired the modus operandi used to arrest the thief in the film.
[3] The film helped the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) to win a trademark case against the Karnataka Road Transport Corporation by submitting its scenes with the KSRTC logo as prime evidence.
[4] The scenes were used to prove that the Transport Corporation existed in Kerala even before the Karnataka RTC.