Kuruthipunal is the official entry into 68th Academy Awards (Oscars) under "Best Foreign Language Film" in 1995.
It became Kamal Haasan's first film of the time to beat the record set by his phenomenally successful "Apoorva Sagodharargal", which released six years earlier.
It received both commercial and critical acclaim, becoming a trendsetter for action films for that period.
The film doesn't feature a song, which is rare for and Indian film.
This movie was featured as part of a retrospective to Kamal Haasan under the category 'Director in Focus' at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.