The movie was re-released on 24 April 2008 (Late Dr. Rajkumar's birth anniversary) in color version with more than 50 prints all over Karnataka.
Satya Harischandra was the first film to run over 100days in Kannada and is touted as one of the greatest classics to hit the silver screen. The movie was re-released many times and in 1992-93 it ran for more than 25weeks on 5 screens and for more than 100 days on 15 screens across the state.
Telugu stalwart NTR was very keen to make the movie in Telugu with Dr. Rajkumar in the lead role after seeing him acting with finesse one of the scenes at the studio. But, he was refused later as Rajkumar didn't show an interest to act in any language other than Kannada.
This is only the third film to be converted to color from black and white after film Mughal-E-Azam in 2004 and Naya Daur in 2007.
The film sound was rerecorded and music was recreated by sound engineer/Kannada music director, Rajesh Ramnath to convert it to DTS.