Meena won the "Six Cinema Express" award for best actress and she also won DINAKARAN Tamil News Paper's Best Actress Award. Child actor "Baby Annie" won the the TamilNadu State Award and Filmfare Award and also other awards in the best Child actor category. K.M.Sarathkumar won the the TamilNadu State Award for Best Make-up artist.
Kamal dedicated this movie to his theatre guru Avvai T.K Shanmugam.
The music was composed by S. Bhattacharya and this was the third time he composed for a Kamal Hasan movie and on the 150th day celebrations of this movie Kamal presented a gold ring to Bhattacharya.
Famous director Cheran was the Assistant director in this movie.
This film was directed by K.S Ravikumar and this is the first film Kamal acting in Ravikumar's film. This is a remake of the famous English comedy film Mrs. Doubtfire.