 The movie was an inspiration for the 1996 Kannada movie "Soma" and before that the 1995 Tamil movie "Baashha" starring Rajinikanth in the lead which went on to be remade in Kannada in 2001 as "Kotigobba" , in Bengali in 2003 as "Guru" and in Bangladeshi in 2001 as "Sultan" starring Mannna.