The movie was dubbed into Tamil as 'Thani Kaattu Raja', and into Hindi as 'International Khiladi: The Iron Man'.
This movie was remade in Bengali under the title 'Gangster', with Hiran Chatterjee and Rukmini Mitra playing the lead roles.
Athidi had completed 35 days in 400 centers and had grossed 35 crore rupees in just four weeks.
Rajiv Kanakala and Venu Madhav played cameo roles in this movie.
This movie was a success at the box office and was widely released worldwide with 500 prints.