It is shown in a flashback that after attending a wedding, Murthy boards a train headed to Bangalore; Indira and Vyasaraya are his co-passengers.

Indira reveals to Murthy that Vyasaraya had paid her poor mother ₹1,000 (US$12) with a promise that he would ensure that the former joins a Gubbi Drama Company.

Murthy tries to regain his life after the disturbing incident until he sees a drunk woman, Clara, driving her car on a railway track.

There, he meets her brother Anthony who reasons that Clara's broken engagement to Reggie, due to his infidelity behind her taking to heavy drinking.

In the present, he is shown laying wreath on her grave, and returns to his car to find that his friends have turned up hoping to cheer him, but Murthy tells them that he is doing fine.

A man by the name of Kaatesh, who seems to have recently amassed a significant amount of wealth is summoned under the false pretext of having recovered some stolen property that belong to him.

He locates Vaikuntaiah, Vyasaraya's aide, and thrashes him into submission to reveal that Vysaraya has left for Bangalore by train that evening.

Nagabharana had revealed that Shiva Rajkumar was supposed to be the hero of this film, but after listening to the script and at the insistence from Chi.

[5] The song "Huttidare" was shot at the Rani Chennamma circle and the Siddharoodh Math, in the city of Hubli, Karnataka.

The song "Huttidare Kannada", composed in Sindhubhairavi Carnatic raaga, went on to become a blockbuster hit and "unofficial state anthem".

[11] Rajkumar insisted on using the song Anuraagava Bhoga which his father used to sing in the stage play Echchamma Naayaka.