Amarkalam opened in May 1999.
== Cast ==== Production ===== Development ===The producers of the previous collaboration of Ajith Kumar and Saran during Kaadhal Mannan (1998), Venkateswaralayam had lost a lot of money on that film so Ajith Kumar insisted on doing another film for the studio
 The end product plays out like a dull rehash of Puthiya pathai and numerous other gangster movies"

