Dharmadurai was directed by one of Rajini's favorite directors Rajasekar and produced by S. Ramanathan and S. Sivaraman under the banner of Rasi Kalamandhir. S. Ramanathan is the producer of Rajini's Hindi film "Geraftar". Dharmadurai is a remake of Vishnuvardhan's Kannada super hit film Deva. In the Telugu version, Mohan Babu was the hero & titled Maa Inti Kath which didn't do well as expected. Later Dharmadurai was produced in Tamil and it was a blockbuster. Following this success, it was produced in Hindi by new producer Dilip Kankariya and directed by KC Bokadia titled Tyagi. Dharmadurai first paper advertisement was given on 14/4/1990 and it was titled "Kaalam Maaripochu". They started the shooting with Rajini, Manjula, Ramesh Aravind, and Senthil, etc. But later, they dropped the movie and started to shoot Deva's story as Dharmadurai. Rajini was fully involved in the movie and Panchu Arunachalam made several changes to improve the scre...