The film, which has music scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja and cinematography handled by Prasad Murella, released on 27 September 2003.

Not able to withstand the threats from hooligans, his billionaire parents send him to his mother's village in Pollachi where his maternal grandfather Velayutham and grandmother Sivagami reside.

[7][8] Vadivelu was injured on a separate occasion and could not walk properly, so his limp was written into the script as a result of his character being beaten up.

Please don't, it hurts, I'll cry) took 16 takes to approve as Khan could not control his laughter every time Vadivelu said the line.

[13] Visual Dasan of Kalki called Vadivelu as man of the match while also praising Kiran's acting and Prashanth's action.

[14] Malathi Rangarajan of The Hindu wrote, "It is a typical Sundar C. brand entertainer [...] with comedy, stunts, romance and sentiment thrown in to make the product racy [...] So naturally don't expect too much of logic in the story or plausibility in the narration".

[9] He claimed that the actor insisted on hiring Agarwal and she was paid more than the budget allocated by the producer just for the lead actress, but Prashanth after a point unceremoniously demanded her removal, and himself often did not show up for filming according to the agreed schedule.

Ramachandran alleged that Prashanth was upset that Vadivelu's role had more scope than his own, hence he refused to let the film be completed and released within the planned time.