One of the highest grossers of the year 2006, Imsai Arasan’s story was not a joyride to success. Produced by Shankar’s S pictures, Imsai found no takers when it was finally wrapped up. Although distributors opined that the movie was fantabulous, none dared to bank on a movie that had Vadivelu in the lead. The rest, as they say, is history. Simbudevan opened up an unexplored genre in Tamil cinema – epic comedy. Dream debut, we would call.