[8][9] Njattyela Sreedharan, a fourth standard drop-out, compiles a dictionary connecting four major Dravidian languages.

[10] Travelling across four states and doing extensive research, he spent twenty five years[11] making the multilingual dictionary.

[12] Dreaming of Words traces Sreedharan's life, work, love for languages and the struggles to get the dictionary published.

Dreaming of Words had its world premiere at the International Mother Language Day Celebrations[19] 2021 organised by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and the Ministry of Education (India) in partnership with UNESCO.

This was followed by an international premiere as part of Kultura Con[20] at the Brazilian Cultural Center in Angola.