When director Amal Neerad approached S.N. Swamy the scriptwriter of the original movie for writing a remake, he gave a different idea for the project, neither a sequel nor a remake but a standalone successor.
If director Amal Neerad made the movie as a remake the actors he considered for the title role were Bala and Prithviraj Sukumaran.
Mohanlal was the only actor to reprise the role from the original movie, Jagathy Sreekumar was also in the original movie but appeared in the sequel in a different role.
Mohanlal's son Pranav Mohanlal appears in the final sequence of the movie as a passing roadside youth.