The film is directed by M. Ranganath, and stars Yagna Shetty as the eponymous lead, and Siddaram Karnik as Ambedkar.

"I picked up reading materials and even researched her on the Internet in order to learn more about her and that period.

It was revealed that Vasudev Alur, predominantly a dialogue-writer in Kannada cinema, taking his original name M. Ranganath with the film, would direct it.

[3] In the same month, an audition was conducted by the makers to cast for supporting roles, in Bangalore.

Siddaram Karnik, an academic, who was researching on the life and work of B. R. Ambedkar at the time in Dharwad, was incidentally cast to play him in the film.