The film stars Vishnuvardhan and Lokesh; with M. P. Shankar, Jayamala, Rushyendramani and Balakrishna all acting in supporting roles.

Though Siddalingaiah added new plot details and characters to increase the running time of the film, it retains the core premise of the original short story.

[1] The film was edited by P. Bhaktavatsalam and the music was composed by G. K. Venkatesh, with lyrics written by Chi.

The film was remade in Tamil as Ellorum Nallavare (1975), in Hindi as Ek Gaon Ki Kahani (1975) and in Telugu as Andharoo Manchivaare (1976).

He gets hold of the fertile land on the banks of the river and builds a house for his son Ayyu.

The villagers rejoice at his death and hold such a grudge against him that nobody turn up to perform his last rites leaving his son Ayyu to do it all alone.

Gulla's father previously given a surety to Bhootayya for another villager's debt and is unable to repay the money.

Gulla also hires a lawyer and ends up spending all his family's property on the court case that he eventually loses.

Gulla holds Ayyu responsible for his father's death, and when he swears to kill him, his wife goes to the latter to warn him and also pleads him to forgive her husband.

Gulla's wife tries to kill herself by drowning herself in the river as she gets convinced that Ayyu will not spare her husband.

Ayyu sees a woman drowning and being a distinguished swimmer saves her only to find that she is his enemy's wife.

Gulla agrees and works sincerely to pay off the debts, but resents Ayyu's friendship.

Ayyu, who is a changed person now, simply states this as an accident when the district police come to investigate the case.

Siddalingiah himself converted the story into a screenplay and asked his longtime friend Hunsur Krishnamurthy to write the dialogues.

He signed Lokesh, a popular theatre artist by then, as Ayya and pre-superstar Vishnuvardhan, as Gulla and MP Shankar as Bhootayya.

[4] Incidentally, this is the only film in which the grandmother and granddaughter duo of Bhavani and Rushyendramani ever shared screen space in.

[2] Initially a tank was constructed to allow water into the house but it broke as soon as the camera began to roll.