Tiger Harischandra Prasad

The film was produced by P. Naga Lakshmi, who previously produced Aadi (2002).^[1] In October 2003, the film was shot in Chilakaluripet, Guntur (at Jinnah Tower) and Narasaraopet.^[4] As of 24 November 2003, the shooting of the film was complete except for two songs.^[1]

The soundtrack was composed by S. A. Rajkumar.^[5] Nachaki of Telugu Cinema wrote "The tunes are good, yes, but seem too common, and blame it partly on the beat used in the songs. The audience feels like they're listening to songs of a mid-80's movie, partly because of the theme of the movie!"^[6]

Gudipoodi Srihari of The Hindu wrote that "Harikrishna gets a tailor made role well cut out for his style of acting, with rugged appeal. But some frivolous scenes including the comedy featuring Brahmanandam and Kovai Sarala, puts the film on a sidetrack".^[7] Jeevi of Idlebrain.com rated the film three out of five and wrote that "The last 20 minutes of the film is impressive. The rest of the film is narrated in old fashion. This film would take Hari Krishna close to the masses".^[8] In a negative review, a critic from Full Hyderabad wrote that "This might've as well been a B-grade Narayana Murthy revolutionary pain, but one doesn't associate pains with Ramya Krishna around. But that's the pain: she's hardly around. This seems like an emerging trend in Tollywood. Not Ramya Krishna's absence, but movies with social messages".^[9] Telugu Cinema wrote "[..] the film fails to evoke any interest neither to the audience targeted nor to the common audience. The film basically looks like R.Narayanamurthy films but has a huge starcast to reach the audience."^[10]