A real life incident happened 18 years ago is the catch of Muthuraj for his story, screenplay, dialogue and direction in bilingual – Kannada and Marathi languages.

When Muthuraj was studying in 8th standard he read a touching incident in ‘E Nadu’ Telugu newspaper and on that day he thought of making this as a film. He got it successful after 18 years. In the meantime he worked in Telugu and Tamil films as assistant acquired knowledge of cinema direction. According to Muthuraj ‘Maanjra’ is a river in Belgavi and known to both Karnataka border and Maharashtra people.

Muthuraj has shot for this film in the same girl house without their knowledge. The boy connected to it is not in Karnataka. After incident in a Belagavi village Bombarga he moved to Maharashtra for health reasons. Muthuraj acquired permission from the concerned person relatives for the film.

There will be Marathi dialogue with sub titles in Kannada version and Kannada dialogues for heroine portion with Marathi subtitles he says. A rural love story is not connected to films like ‘Sairat’ Marathi film blockbuster that was made in Kannada too. The original lover’s names in this case are Padma and Balaram – the tragic love story of the two is made in commercial format.  Muthuraj held shooting at Belagavi, Kerala, Goa and Karwar. There are five songs in this film.

Ranjit Singh was picked when he had come to Chennai for a Tamil film audition of ‘Venilla Kabbaddi Boys’. According to him sixty percent of the film script is real life incident and remaining is given new color to the film. He is the son of Jilla Panchayat President in the film.

Apoorva a Marathi speaking girl in Belagavi district plays a milk vendor role in this film. Ravi Arjun Poojar is producer of this film and he is close friend of villain character Ranjan in the film. He owns 60 acres of land and runs a hardware shop.Villain character Ranjan from small roles in cinema was offered main trouble shooter role.

‘Maanjra’ is made in Sri Durga Parameshwari Cine Combines, Sayyad Yasincinematography, Chinmaya M Rao music, V Nagendra Prasad and Chinmaya Rao lyrics, Deepak Sharma editing, Usha dance, Ultimate Shivu stunts, Tharmacoal Srinivas art are part of technical team.

In the supporting cast are Nalini Vidyasagar, CS Patil, Nagesh Kumar, Vishalakshmi Hegde, Yash, Manjunath Gowda, Somashekhar, Shivanayak, Satish Bambaraga and others.