90 percent of the film was shot in Palari (now Balodabazar district), about 70 km from the capital, Raipur. The film was made in just 27 days in a budget of Rs 1.25
lakh only. The record-breaking success of the first
Bhojpuri film
Ganga Maiyya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo in 1962 inspired Manu Nayak to make a film in Chhattisgarhi dialect. He announced that he will be making a film. This news was published in all the popular film newspapers. Many days were spent in chaos. The question was about finance. Finally, Those brokers who financed Anupam had seen the honesty of Manu, giving them Rs 5000 each without interest. He also told about his idea of making film to
Mahesh Kaul who liked it but asked him to scrap the idea and not to resign Anupam Chitra studio and he turned down the proposal. Manu on-boarded ‘Malay Chakraborty’ for music and ‘Hanumant Naidu’ for son-writing. He recorded the first song ‘Jhamkant Nadiya Bahini Lage’ with
Mohammad Rafi. After recording the second song ‘Tor Pairing ke Jhanar Jhanar’, Manu went to Raipur to meet his friends. He was searching for a distribution manager and offered 60k in return for distribution rights in Chhattisgarh to a firm. Went back to Mumbai, selected actors for the film and finalised the locations. Equipments and cast of 12 arrived Raipur via train. "I had seen it happening even in my own house. Whenever my friends from lower castes used to come to my home, my mother used to not say anything but soon after they had left she used to clean the entrance of the house. This and few other instances deeply affected me and I realized that until caste discrimination is addressed properly to the masses, society would not progress." Said Manu Nayak in an interview.
Manna Dey,
Suman Kalyanpur, Meenu Purushottam and
Mahendra Kapoor also sang songs in this film in a very small amount following Mohammad Rafi. Congress MLA from Palari, late Shri Brijlal Verma also helped Manu to arrange the shooting locations in the village itself. The first shot was taken at Vivekananda Ashram in Raipur. The film was extremely difficult to complete in limited expenditure. Lack of reels constrained the team to do lesser re-takes and due to which some of the songs has to be recorded in Mumbai using sets. Meanwhile, the song ‘Jhamkat Nadiya’ became a hit on radio and the film was released on 14 April 1965 in Durg's Prabhat Talkies. In Durg, the film ran without any controversy, then it was released in Bhatapara and after the settlement of all the disputes, when the film became tax free, it was screened in Rajkamal (today's Raj Talkies) of Raipur. == Legacy ==