In 1986, Haasan produced the technically brilliant "Vikram" and collaborated with Kodandarami Reddy for "Oka Radha Iddaru Krishnulu" and then K. Viswanath in "Swati Mutyam", playing an autistic person who tries to change society and won him his second Nandi Award for Best Actor. it was India's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 1986. These Tollywood films found him a large audience in Andhra Pradesh, and many of his later Tamil films were dubbed into Telugu.