"7aum Arivu" received mixed critical response upon release, and opened strongly at the box office. It was also dubbed into Telugu as "7th Sense" which released simultaneously along with the Tamil original. The film was also dubbed in Hindi as "Chennai v/s China" in 2014 as well as in Malayalam with the original title. The film was also one out of several films selected by the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce for being the Indian submission for Oscar under the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.