 This movie is credited to have inspired a desi Bond genre in a full-fledged manner which lead to Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam film industries attempting to replicate the Kannada spy movie genre.The grand success of this movie led to several such attempts in other south Indian languages with top stars - Jaishankar in Tamil; Krishna in Telugu and Prem Nazir in Malayalam.It was also the first south Indian movie to use the miniature faking technique for a car blasting sequence.