This film marks the debut for the lead actors Gautam Karthick and Thulasi Nair. Co-incidentally, Karthick, who is the father of Gautam Karthick and Radha, who is the mother of Thulasi Nair made their Tamil cinema debut with the same film Alaigal Oivadhillai (1981)
As the film portrays Christianity, Rajiv Menon explored the way artistes capture biblical themes.
For this he and Ratnam took inspiration from Simon Schama's documentary called Power of Art on Caravaggio.
Inorder to get a perfect prescription for this movie, Jeyamohan wrote a 200-page novel which was later transformed into a screenplay by Mani Ratnam.
Actor Arvind Swamy made his comeback after a long hiatus with this movie.