He feels guilty about his betrayal to Bhuvana thinking she is dead and Rao Bahadur uses this opportunity to make some money out of it.

Latha, who happens to be Rao Bahadur's only daughter falls in love with Muthu without knowing his true identity.

During a function, Saranraj plans to kill Muthu but accidentally Vishwanathan gets hurt and is in need of a rare blood group for surgery.

To celebrate the silver jubilee of the production company Sathya Movies, R. M. Veerappan decided to remake the Hindi film Laawaris with Rajinikanth and chose P. Vasu as the director.

Vasu made changes to the screenplay for Tamil version by eliminating unnecessary characters from the original.

[6][7] The song "Nooru Varusham" is frequently played at wedding receptions in Tamil Nadu.

[10] The Hindu wrote, "A well chalked out screenplay with effective penmanship coupled with ideal situations to suit Rajinikanth contribute to make Sathya Movies Panakkaran one of the good release of Pongal".

[11] P. S. S. of Kalki wrote the only worthy thing to remember was Rajinikanth's acting, while praising the humour and found the music to be okayish.