• Apoorva Sagodharargal was dubbed and released in Hindi as Appu Raja.
  • Veteran actor Prem Nazir was the initial choice for Sethupathy’s character, which was eventually played by Kamal himself.
  • In the film, Appu uses a Rube Goldberg Machine to kill Francis Anbarasu (Delhi Ganesh). The scene became so popular that it was parodied in Thamizh Padam (2010).
  • Singeetam Srinivasa Rao and Kamal Haasan were planning to make a documentary on the making of Apoorva Sagodharargal. Unfortunately, the project never took off.
  • Rao loves to binge-watch TV series on Netflix and Amazon Prime. He recently watched 96 and says he loved it. He’s also a fan of Game of Thrones.