The film relies heavily on a cast well-known for defining the intense, action-packed landscape of 1980s Malayalam cinema:
The courtroom climax is legendary. Without spoiling too much (though the movie is 35+ years old), the final dialogue where Dheeran explains why the law sometimes fails the poor is considered one of the top 10 dialogues in Malayalam cinema history. It gives the violence a moral backbone.
A prominent actress of the time, Unnimary brought grace and emotional depth to the film.