[1] The supporting cast features Makarand Deshpande, Srinagar Kitty, Atul Kulkarni, P. Ravi Shankar and Neethu.

The movie is a loose biopic about Minuguthaare Kalpana, Kannada's yesteryears actress played by Pooja Gandhi.

When she sets on to follow her dream, she's taken aback by the number of film personalities wanting sexual favours from her to project her talent.

He said, "We spoke to a lot of yesteryear actors and directors like KSL Swamy, Bhagawan, PH Vishwanath, Leelavathi, Jayanthi and BV Radha to understand the dynamics of the film industry back then, and got their inputs and impressions about Kalpana from their interactions with her."

The theatre scenes were shot at Gudigeri Basavaraj and Malathi Sudhir Drama companies which still had props from the 1970s including vintage mirrors.

She alleged that the film was based on a serialised novel Abhinetriya Antaranaga, written by her for the weekly Kannada magazine Mangala, in 2003.

"[9] Mano Murthy composed the music of the film and lyrics for the soundtrack were penned by Jayant Kaikini and V. Nagendra Prasad.

[11] The soundtrack album of Abhinetri was released officially on 21 March 2014 in Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Bangalore with playback singer Shreya Ghoshal, who sang five songs in the film, attending as chief guest.

Prior to its release, news reports emerged that the film was being dubbed in eight languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Bengali and Marathi.

On the acting performances he wrote, "Atul Kulkarni, Makarand Deshpande, Ravishankar, Achyuth Kumar gel well with their characters" and that for Pooja Gandhi "a dubbing artiste would have done a better job of her voice."

He concluded writing, "While music by Mano Murthy is in tune with the storyline, KS Chandrasekhar's cinematography scores high.

He added that Gandhi was supported well by other actors but for Makarand Deshpande who he felt was miscast as a "bucktoothed, lascivious film producer.

"[20] Muralidhara Khajane of The Hindu called the film "an attempted biopic" of Kalpana and wrote, "While one has to appreciate the efforts put in by Pooja Gandhi, the director could have utilised the talent of Makarand Deshpande and Atul Kulkarni in a better way.

On Pooja Gandhi's performance, he wrote that "despite putting her best ever, [she] fails to impress and dubbing her own voice in the film makes it even more worst.