R.Parthepan won National Awards and state government of Tamilnadu Awards for the ‘Best Film’ and the ‘Best Direction’ for his first film ‘Pudhiya Pathai’ in 1989.

Since then he has been receiving many awards for his works. To name a few, he was honored with the ‘Best Actor’ Award for his outstanding performance in ‘Bharathi kannama’ in 1998 by the Govt. of  Tamilnadu. His film ‘Housefull’ brought him two National Awards for the ‘Best Film’ and Best Direction in 1999 and the same film bagged three state awards for the ‘Best Film’, the ‘Best Direction’ the Best Editing.

Although some of his films like ‘Sugamaana Sumaigal’, ‘Pullakutti karan’ etc., were left unawarded by the academics the underlying message they carried was certainly ‘the humanity’ which was inculcated in him since his childhood. The poverty he faced in the past was largely responsible for inculcating the virtues of social activism in R.Parthepan.

Besides his film credentials, he has been contributing short-stories, articles, poems etc., to leading journals like Kumudam, Ananda Vikatan etc., since he is basically a writer.

The entire collection by the sale of this books goes to various social service organizations taking care of poor and ready through his ‘R.Parthepan Manitha Mandram’ which indulge in social service activities such as conducting blood-donation camps, arranging mass lunch to thousands of orphaned children on auspicious days distributing clothes to orphanages, helping the deserved students with school books, note books, stationery, uniform, fees etc., adopting certain young and old people who were left uncared and so on.