 During the making of the film, media speculation arose that the lead pair, Suriya and Jyothika, were seeing each other.The film marked the first of seven films in which Suriya appeared alongside Jyothika, whom he married in 2006.The film shared a similar storyline to the Prashanth and Simran starrer "Jodi", which incidentally had Vijayakumar and Nassar playing similar roles of leader of feuding families.