It is a remake of 1981 Tamil movie Sattam Oru Iruttarai which starred Vijayakanth in lead role.
The film stars Vijayakanth in the lead role, making this his 150th film, along with Navaneet Kaur, Sheryl Pinto, Rahul Dev, Biju Menon, Sriman, and Riyaz Khan.
Raj (Vijayakanth), a police officer in coma for four years, wakes up suddenly.
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The film features Vijayakanth, Gouthami, Aamani and Devan in lead roles.Through this film Devan gain fame in negative roles in Tamil Film industry.
Vijayakanth was the special attraction in the next edition and in 2011 Milan, M. Balamuralikrishna, Vikram (actor) were the guest of honor and Chief guest respectively.
Several high-profile national politicians took part in the campaigning: Sonia Gandhi (president of the Indian National Congress), Rahul Gandhi (Indian National Congress general secretary), Pranab Mukherjee (Indian National Congress union minister), Nitin Gadkari (BJP president), Sushma Swaraj (BJP MP), Venkaiah Naidu (former BJP president), M. Karunanidhi (DMK chief minister of Tamil Nadu), J. Jayalalithaa (leader of AIADMK) and Vijayakanth (leader of DMDK).
Kamal Haasan later refused to work in Sakthi's Manakanakku (1985), but later agreed to make a cameo appearance in the Vijayakanth starrer.
During the making of Nagalingam, Ravali was not paid by the producers and she took action by reporting the case to the Nadigar Sangam, which their chief Vijayakanth helped settle.
;Actors' Day: On October 1, 2001, SIFAA president actor Vijayakanth declared that October 1, which is actor Sivaji Ganesan's birthday, be observed as Actors' Day in Tamil Nadu.
After the success of Pulan Visaranai, Rowther decided to make another project with Vijayakanth and Selvamani titled "Captain Prabhakaran", the plotline of the film was based on the forest brigand Veerappan.
Jananam (English: Birth) is a South Indian Tamil film directed by Ramesh Selvan, who earlier directed Ulavuthurai with Vijayakanth.
He made a comeback with Mariyadhai in 2009, another Tamil film starring Vijayakanth, Meena, Meera Jasmine and Ambika playing the lead roles.
Virudhagiri is a 2010 Indian Tamil action film written and directed by Vijayakanth, making his directorial debut, besides playing the titular character as well.