FACT 01:

The film marks Sonali Bendre’s Telugu debut. Mani Sharma composed the music, Ram Prasad was the cinematographer and Peter Hein debuted as an action choreographer with this film. The film marked the last on-screen appearance of veteran Telugu actor Dhulipala Seetarama Sastry father of Naga Chaitanya’s 2nd wife Shobitha.

FACT 02:

The film released on 17 February 2001 to positive reviews, was commercially successful, and was declared a Super Hit at the box office. Murari has been dubbed into Hindi as Rowdy Cheetah in 2015. It won three Nandi Awards including Second Best Feature Film. The film was remade in Kannada as Gopi.

FACT 03:

When Krishna Vamsi visited a temple in a village, he learned a famous resident there whose three sons died under suspicious circumstances at regular intervals four years ago. When he spoke to the local people, they said that the man killed a worker from lower cadre by hiring some goons and the wife of that murdered person came to this person’s house and cursed that all his three sons would be dying within six months. After listening to them, he was intrigued by all these incidents. and he finally made it on the screen with real life incidents.

FACT 04:

When the film in the combination of Mahesh Babu was announced, Krishna Vamsi though he should make all those mystic questions get a representation in his film. He wanted to incorporate Telugu culture and tradition with a festive mood and thus used a joint-family backdrop and made a sensation.

FACT 05:

Influenced by Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 1971 film Anand, Krishna Vamsi wanted to kill Mahesh Babu’s character in this film as he felt that except Anand, no other film introduced a hero who would be dying very soon. During the story discussions, when he said the same to his team, none accepted. He aimed to go in reverse trend and form the film’s screenplay as story writers used to create a problem and then introduced the hero to solve it in Telugu cinema.