[2][3] The movie was a blockbuster at the box office and served as a major breakthrough for Tovino Thomas as it established him as one of the biggest leading star in Malayalam cinema.

Sakhavu Kochaniyan is a strong leftist who, during The Emergency period, conducted a successful protest and established the SFY party in the famous Maharaja's College, Ernakulam.

There is eventually a skirmish between Subhash's gang and a bunch of people led by KSQ activist Kanjan, but it's stopped safely.

In a local Kalolsavam, Roopesh and his party select the students who are taking part, but they reject a girl who wants to participate in four activities.

In real life, Jino John, a Kerala Students Union (KSU, which is shown to be KSQ in the film) representative, won against the left-aligned Students' Federation of India (SFI, depicted as SFY in the film) candidate in the Maharajas College union elections on 1 October 2010.

He was also the College Union General Secretary and was killed by a KSU activists at Calicut University Art Fest in the year 1992.