Chandralekha
Even though many people liked the movie and earned a lot there were no profits; Vasan remade it in Hindi to try to get profits. The Hindi version was given out by The Screens (a company in Bombay, now Mumbai), and it was shown to the public on 24 December 1948. It was very successful. Vasan called Chandralekha "a pageant for our peasants", for "the war-weary public that had been forced to watch insipid war propaganda pictures for years." It was selected by the Indian government for watching at the fourth International movie Festival in Prague in 1949. The movie's success made Madras a centre for Hindi films. Five years after Chandralekha success, Gemini paid its employees more money, one of the first studios in the world to do so.