The film is about Shivamma (played by Sharanamma Chetti)—an enterprising and ambitious woman in a small village in North Karnataka, who falls prey to a pyramid marketing scheme.
Jaishankar Aryar proved his mettle when he wooed film buffs with his award-winning film Lacchavva (2019), which was a part of Rishab Shetty’s anthology Katha Sangama.
He now tries his hand as a full-length feature director, where he once again explores a subject, that is set in North Karnataka while working with a cast of mostly non-actors.
He excels and how, as this story turns is far from that artsy film festival stereotype and instead is a full-fledged mass-y entertainer replete with laughs.
While it remains irreverent, the story still has enough tropes of having a protagonist of a mass film, who has a meteoric rise, fall, and moments of salvation.
Shivamma Yarehanchinala is a film that needs to be watched by everyone as it shares more than just the story of a woman in a village in North Karnataka.