December 25, 2019
Release Date

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A Truthful Mother (2019)

Name: A Truthful Mother
Genre: Animation
Released: 2019-12-25

1h 25m

Running Time

December 25, 2019
Release Date

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Plot.

Facing a drought, a hungry tiger and a noble cow have an extraordinary encounter in this fable based on a children’s book and a Kannada folk song.

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Cast & Crew.

Revathi

Punyakoti

Roger Narayan

Kalinga

Sneha Ravishankar

Putta

Leela S.R.

Ajji

Ravishankar Venkateswaran

Director / Writer

Ilaiyaraaja

Composer

Manoj Kannoth

Editor

Media.

Details.

Release Date
December 25, 2019

Original Name
Punyakoti

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 25m

Genres
Animation

Last updated: 2025-02-13

Wiki.

Punyakoti (transl. Meritorious act), also released as A Truthful Mother, is a 2020 Indian Sanskrit-language animated film directed by Ravishankar Venkateswaran.Ilaiyaraaja composed the soundtrack of the film. It is the first animated film in Sanskrit.

Punyakoti is an adaptation of a picture book for children written by Ravishankar, was produced through crowdsourcing and it is the first Sanskrit animated film. The film got certified from Central Board of Film Certification on 18 March 2020, but its theatrical release was halted due to Corona pandemic. Finally Samskrita Bharati premiered the film through online streaming platform Vimeo on 25 March 2020 and Netflix added the film to its platform on 31 March 2020.