'Chanakyan' has a significant relevance in Malayalam cinema and may be in Indian cinema too. It is a revenge story and first of its kind. The cinema not only reveals the acting perfection of Kamal Hassan and Thilakan but also shows how technology can be used to deceive a whole state. The film came when TV was becoming popular as a household device and Doordarshan was a strange and astonishing entertainment medium to the common people. The film boasts of using technological experiments in the content of the story which one can hardly think at that time. T.K.Rajeev Kumar surprised everyone with this film. Urmila Mandotkar made debut in malayalam with this film. Jayaram also gave a good performance.
