This is India's first superhero movie. It was a blockbuster and Silver jubilee film in both Tamil and Telugu version. In Sri Lanka also Tamil version was ran 386-days.
The film, a bi-lingual was made in Telugu language as well with the same title.
In Sri Lanka, this movie ran 386 days at Concord Theatre, 276 days at Kingsly Theatre and 152 days at yaal Shanthi Theatre.
The film ran for 386 days in Sri Lanka, the longest running film in Sri Lanka. The previous record Chandralekha (1948) ran for 383 days.
The film was dubbed into Hindi years later in the 2000's.