Mankatha has ranked 7th in the top 10 most searched films in 2011 through Google. It is the only Tamil film to have reached the Google Zeitgeist top 10, making the achievement very special. The movies that made it to this list are as follows:
Rank 1: Bodyguard
Rank 2: Ra One
Rank 3: Harry Potter
Rank 4: Delhi Belly
Rank 5: Singham
Rank 6: Ready
Rank 7: Mankatha
Rank 8: Transformers 3
Rank 9: Dookudu
Rank 10: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Mankatha was directed by Venkat Prabhu with Dhayanidhi Alagiri of Cloud Nine Movies producing it. Ajith, Arjun, Trisha, Premji Amaren, and others formed the star cast.