 It was an all time blockbuster at the box office, the highest-grossing Indian film of 1993.It was also remade into Telugu as "Pokiri Raja" in 1995, starring Venkatesh and Ali.The movie was reported to have been inspired by the 1977 Kannada movie "Kittu Puttu"  which itself was a remake of 1967 Tamil movie "Anubavi Raja Anubavi" which had already been remade earlier in Hindi in 1973 as "Do Phool".