Anantha Poongatre  is a Tamil film directed by Raj Kapoor and starring Ajith Kumar, Meena and Karthik in the lead roles. The film is based upon how respect can be mistaken as love by circumstances and the film subsequently opened to positive reviews and became commercial success, securing two state awards. 154 min is the running time of the film.  During production, the producer M Kajamydeen had attempted unsuccessfully to oust Ajithkumar from the project and replace him with Prashanth. The producer and Ajith later clashed following the failure of their action film, Jana in 2004. Initially Vindhya was assigned to play Malavika's role in the film, but was later dropped from the project.  The film won two Tamil Nadu State Awards with the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Dialogue Writer going to Shivaram Gandhi while it also won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film Portraying Woman in Good Light. The film was remade as Subhakaryam in Telugu and then also later remade in the Kannada language in 2009 as Rajakumari.