इं 1980 दशकनि समाव हासननि सावथुनफोराव 1980नि तामिल राव वरुमयिन नीरम सिवापु दंफायोमोन; बे सावथुनखौ लोगोसेयै तेलुगुआव आकाली राज्यम महरै शूटिं खालामनाय जादोंमोन; जेराव बिथाङा सासे बेकार सेंग्रानि फाव लादोंमोन आरो बिथाङा तेलुगुनि गिबिसिन फिल्मफेयर बान्था मोननो हादोंमोन।
Haasan's films during the 1980s included the 1980 Tamil-language Varumayin Niram Sivappu, the film was simultaneously shot in Telugu as Aakali Rajyam, in which he played an unemployed youth and earned him a first Filmfare Award in Telugu.