"Kireedam" was released on 7 July 1989, it received widespread critical acclaim and was a major commercial success at the box office. A sequel to the film titled "Chenkol" was released in 1993. "Kireedam" was remade into six other languages — in Telugu as "Rowdyism Nasinchali" (1990), in Kannada as "Modada Mareyalli" (1991), in Hindi as "Gardish" (1993), in Bengali Bangladesh as "Babar Adesh" (1995), in Bengali as "Nayak-The Real Hero " (2005) and in Tamil as "Kireedam" (2007) - becoming Mohanlal's first movie to be remade in six other languages. In 2007, it became the second Indian movie to be remade in six other languages after "Anuraga Aralithu".