The film stars Vijay, Khushbu, Rambha and Monica Castelino, with Manivannan, Mansoor Ali Khan, R. Sundarrajan, Karan and Kovai Sarala in supporting roles.

It was released on 9 September 1999 and performed averagely at the box office, but won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Audiographer.

She has a long standing rivalry with Vedachalam, another businessman in the town, who end up swindling his own wealth and reputation to sabotage Indira Devi, due to his assistants foolishness.

In a turn of events, Indira Devi has no choice but to appoint Kasi as her driver, something that astonishes the female staffs.

Indira's younger sister Ishwarya comes back from Germany after studies and is instantly at logger-heads with Kasi.

Once, a few goons stand on the compound wall and tease Ishwarya, prompting Indira Devi to consider a Gurkha.

An overwhelmed Ashok runs to meet Ishwarya but is shocked to see her with Kasi aka Kannan instead.

She is recused and is refused by her lover who marries another woman, revealing that Indra Kumar only loved her beauty.

Indira gets a great dislike for males after these incident and witnessing Ishwarya begging for food and shunned by men.

Learning of the true love between them, Indira goes to Germany with Ishwarya, ahead of Kannan's family and waits for them.

[4] It remains the only collaboration to date between Ravikumar and Vijay,[5] with the actor mentioning he was delighted with the pace and commitment that the director injected into production.

[8] Shooting took place in locations including Ooty,[6] Austria, Germany,[9] and Switzerland; a few scenes were shot in the Alps area.

[13][14] According to Ravikumar, the film underperformed at the box office, potentially due to the successful run of Padayappa.

[16] The New Indian Express criticised Vijay's performance, saying comedy was not "his cup of tea" and that the "film drags on aimlessly" but praised Deva's soundtrack.

[20] D. S. Ramanujam of The Hindu wrote, "Humour and veiled innuendos are second nature to director K. S. Ravikumar, who schemes bountiful fun-filled situations with his screenplay based on M. A. Kennedy's weather-beaten story of taming a rich woman, who hates men".

[4] Post-release, Minsara Kanna garnered attention after video recording equipment was found at Suriyan Theatre in Chennai which had been showing the film.

The equipment was found out to be a unit of a group known as Saravanas Video, who had been hired by a TV production company owned by K.

[22] Vijay's father S. A. Chandrasekhar intervened, seized the equipment and alleged that Balachander was potentially involved in piracy activities.

Balachander subsequently stepped down as president from the Film Employees Federation of South India (FEFSI), complaining that he was being harassed by Chandrasekhar.