On August 24, the team of director-actor
Rishab Shetty, celebrated two years of their film, Sarkari Hiriya Prathamika Shaale, Kasaragodu, Koduge: Ramanna Rai. The 2018 film was written, directed and produced by Rishab, and had won Best Children's film at the 66th National Awards 2019.
The film stars Anant Nag, Ranjan, Sampath, Pramod Shetty, Saptha Pavoor, Mahendra, Sohan Shetty, Prakash Thuminad, Manish Heroor, among others.
The film was Rishab Shetty’s third directorial and had music by
Vasuki Vaibhav. During the making, the filmmaker had said that making a children’s film was a beautiful experience for him. “I wanted to make a content-driven film, without big stars, told through children,” Rishab had been quoted as saying.
The film was set in Kasargod, which becomes the hotbed for language supremacy, when a Kannada medium government-run Middle and High School faces a lot of financial difficulties due to non-receipt of money from the government officials. Faced with hostile and corrupt government officials, the prinvipal is forced to sign a government order declaring that the building is unsafe and needs to be demolished.
This move though, affects a bunch of students, who then take it upon themselves to get someone 'famous' to fight their case. They enlist the help of a social worker, Anantapadmanabha, to take up their case. In a twist of fate, though, the children end up getting the wrong Anantapadmanabha to take up their struggle.