This film is based on a novel by the same name from Dr. K Shivaram Karanth. The story revolves around Subbaraya and his grandmother Mookajji. Subbraya always loves to listen to the stories told by his grandmother, instead of reading novels which fails in portraying reality. He feels that the stories told by his grandmother are much more interesting than those novels. He takes every matter to his Grandmother to know reality of them and he feels that Mookajji's answer appealing and real. Although incidents happen in a village, the author makes Subbraya to ask questions regarding god, culture, belief, evolution and other social issues in this film from director P Sheshadri.