International Film Festival of India
The film was premiered at the 1985 International Film Festival of India. The film was screened retrospectively, during the 2014 International Film Festival of India in "Celebrating Dance in Indian cinema" section. This film won 14 Nandi Awards, the most by any Telugu film. It was subsequently dubbed into Malayalam and Tamil as "Mayoori" and remade as "Naache Mayuri" (1986) in Hindi.