[2][3] The film features Ravi Mohan, Aaron Aziz and Nivetha Pethuraj in the lead roles.

[7][8][9][10] The film was released on 22 June 2018,[11] and received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, who praised Jayam Ravi's performance, cinematography, background score, soundtrack and VFX, but criticized its logic-defying sequences and writing.

[13] The DSD team, which consist of Mahendran as its head, find that an asteroid will hit earth in seven months, threatening the lives of people in and around Chennai.

However, images of Vasu cutting the wires are discovered by Lt. Gen. T. Rithika and brought to Mahendran's attention.

It is revealed that the crew of the station know the true intentions behind Dhruva 1's mission, and intend to hold them off, so that the asteroid will hit the Bay of Bengal, destroying India, whilst profiting their country with the major rebuilding projects.

While in the space station, Venkat and Appu hack the space station, causing a power outage, while Vasu obtains Captain Li Wei's fingerprint and iris in order to enter the chamber with the missile.

While the mysterious voice instructs Vasu to hand over the missile to the crew of Dhruva 2, Rithika hears this from Mahendran's communication device, and goes to his office, where Mahendran kills her, revealing that he is the mysterious voice and that he wants to sell the missile on the black market.

It is revealed, that Vasu had notified Swathi and Raghuram about the mysterious voice, and that he gave a decoy of the missile to Dhruva 2.

[11][14] The team began pre-production work thereafter, with Ravi describing it as the biggest film in his career.

[16] Aaron Aziz, a Malaysian-based actor who mostly performed in Malaysian and Singaporean drama and films, was selected as the lead villain,[17] marking his entry into Tamil cinema.

"Kurumba" (Father's Love) in the film featured real photographs and videos from Ravi Mohan's personal family collection.

[36] It grossed US$45,724 in USA, MYR 2,233,745 in Malaysia, £10,480 in UK, A$34,493 in Australia, and NZ$3,424 in New Zealand in its opening weekend.

Thinkal Menon of The Times of India praised the film for the laudable attempt and gave it 3.5 stars out of 5.

[41] Sreedhar Pillai of Firstpost praised it as a reasonably entertaining film with a novel concept and gave it 3 out of 5 stars.

[43] Sowmya Rajendran of The News Minute praised the film for its impressive VFX scenes.

[44] Vikram Venkateswaran of the Quint called the film a harmless entertainer and gave it 3 stars.

[45] Sudhir Srinivasan of Cinema Express admired the efforts of the director in this space genre film and gave it 3 stars.

[46] Priyanka Sundar of Hindustan Times called it a film without logic and gave it 1.5 stars.

[49] Director Venkat Prabhu and actor Arvind Swami praised the film for the effort.

[52] J. Hurtado of Screen Anarchy noted that the film had many similarities to Armageddon (1998), one of which included the human mission of saving the Earth from an asteroid.