Rama Jois is an Ayurveda expert, where he and his wife Susheela, lose their only son Karna, when he goes missing while on a trip to a temple festival with his aunt Yashoda.
The guilt of having lost her nephew has been eating away at Yashoda, so when she finally opens up to her daughter Siri about the circumstances that brought about a split between her and her brother, the latter decides that she will mend the brother-sister relationship by bringing Karna back.
Anila also finds about the Jois family's long battle to protect the powerful Trishanku stone from getting into the hands of Dharka and Hinnudi.
Kumara's entry into the Jois family and their connection with Trishanku bead and the black magic world forms the curious plot of the film.
He used black magic as the theme and wrote a story to be adapted into a web series, but eventually decided against it as he was unsure as to how "OTT would work with Kannada audiences".
Avatar Purusha will see an element of Trishanku and the slogan Aswathama Hatha Kunjaraha..., which adds a valuable point in our film".
[11] Srinagar Kitty was cast to play a practitioner of black magic from Odisha named Kumara, one of the avatars of Sharan's character.
[14] The supporting cast on the film included Balaji Manohar (to play a character named Hinnudi), P. Sai Kumar, Sudha Rani, Bhavya and Sadhu Kokila.
He stated that since he was making a "humourous [sic] film that also deals with black magic", it gave the makers "a lot of scope to work with the music theme, as well as the background scores and re-recording."
"[17] The News Minute reported in April 2020 that a major portion of filming was completed "with just a song and fight sequences to be canned".