Kochadaiyaan is a high budgeted film which has Rajnikanth in the lead role. Deepika Padukone has paired with him. Sarathkumar, Aadhi, Shobana, Rukmani, Jackie Shroff and Nasar are also starring in this film.

Rajni’s daughter Soundarya has directed this film. A R Rahman has composed the music. The shooting of this film took place in foreign locations and Ramoji Rao Film City in Hyderabad. Post production works like Re-recording, dubbing and computer graphics are going on in top gear.

K S Ravikumar was appointed as the overseer of the film Kochadaiyaan. He was present during the entire shooting. Now there is news that all of a sudden he has quit this film. It was mentioned that he quit this film because there was difference of opinion and director Madhesh has now taken over the charge.

When asked K S Ravikumar about this, he denied this news. He said, "When the shooting of Kochadaiyaan took place in London and Kerala I also worked. Now I am busy remaking the Tamil film Sami in Hindi. Sanjay Dutt is donning the lead role. Hence I was not able to participate in the editing and other post production work of this film. I have already mentioned about this to Soundarya."