It stars Vijayakanth as the title character with Jyothirmayi, Malavika and Pradeep Rawat in supporting roles.

[1] Shooting was done at locations in India including Chennai, Pondicherry and Rameswaram, while a song sequence was filmed in Bangkok.

[4] Lajjavathi of Kalki praised Vijayakanth for doing an action film without politics and also praised Suresh for racy screenplay and called Pattukottai Prabhakar's dialogues as sharp but felt if Malavika's portions, unnecessary songs were removed and some of the plots were trimmed, this Sabari would have been talked about even more.

[5] Chennai Online wrote "Whether it's a lawyer, a cop or a doctor he is playing, it doesn't seem to matter much.

Which again doesn't speak very highly of the director's effort to present a fare that is refreshing or exciting".

[6] Sify wrote "There is plenty of blood and gore, punch lines, flying kicks and songs in exotic foreign locales.