The movie was launched by C. V. Sridhar in 1980 as a Cinemascope enterprise and was then titled as Sakthi. Sridhar collaborated with Kamal Haasan after the success of the 1978 movie Ilamai Oonjal Aadukirathu, which had additionally featured Rajinikanth. The movie was meant to be the primary movie which featured Kamal Haasan and Ambika as a lead pair and stills had been launched that includes Ambika in a swimsuit. The movie received delayed and was placed on the again burner, earlier than it re-emerged in 1986 underneath the title of Meendum Suryodayam and taking pictures progressed. It was deliberate for an April 1986 launch, which received postponed to Could 1 of 1986. There was a neighborhood authority election in March 1986 and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam gained seats. Sridhar felt that if the movie launched with the title Meendum Suryodayam (Rising Solar),
