Aachar & Co’s modern interpretation of MS Subbalakshmi's Suprabhata song on July 19

Aachar & Co is the latest presentation from PRK Productions. The film, written and directed by Sindhu Sreenivasa Murthy, is a story set in 1960s Bengaluru, and focuses on the family of Madhusudhan and Savitri Aachar and their 10 children. Sindhu co-wrote the story with standup comedian Kanan Gill and had presented a 6-minute showreel to the late Puneeth Rajkumar, who had okayed it to be made as a feature film under his banner.

“The story is set in the 60s, because it was a decade of important changes, like industrialisation and nationalisation of banks, but, most importantly, gender roles also began changing. Aachar & Co looks at how these 10 children of the Aachar household grow up amid these changing dynamics,” Sindhu had said during the film’s trailer launch. Kanan, who wrote it with her added on social media, “It’s a story set in Bangalore in the 60s, I wasn’t alive in the 60s but it’s a safe bet that the world wasn’t backlit with apocalypse as much as it is now —yet in serenity too there were challenges and among the challenges, new and exciting sources for joy. The movie is about love and family, and it is not about meteors.”

The film is now set to release in theatres on July 28, in the run-up to which they had first revealed the trailer, followed by the first song, which will come out on July 19. The song, interestingly, is a modern interpretation of the popular traditional MS Subbalakshmi number Suprabhatam. The Achar & Co version of the song has been composed by Bindhu Malini.

The film is set in Bengaluru – Jayanagar, to be precice, but it was not shot in the city as its landscape is way too modernized, so the team shot it entirely in Mysuru where they found several live locations that retained the old-world charm of the 60s. Sindhu said that while filming they had to be extra cautious to ensure that no modern-day elements sneaked into the frame at any point of time.