The story has subsequently been adapted 20 times in numerous languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Assamese with most of them being successful at the box office.

[2] It is also the one of those rare instances where a story has been adapted so many times, generally to box-office success.

[2] The story is from a short episode in the Vishnu Purana, a holy text of Vaishnavites, that narrates the story of Prahlada, an ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu much against the wish of his father Hiranyakashipu, a demon.

The production was by Salem Shankar Films and Central Studios in Coimbatore.

[2] The story and the dialogues of the Tamil film were closely followed for the Malayalam version.