 The film, produced by P. G. Shrikanth, had musical score by Vidyasagar and was released on 16 February 1996.The film was later remade into Hindi as "Ghulam-E-Mustafa" (1997) starring Nana Patekar and Raveena Tandon in the lead roles and was also remade in Bengali as "Rehmat Ali" (2010) with Mithun Chakraborty.Musthaffaa (Napoleon) is the trusted henchman of the godfather Periyavar (Sooriya).