no Megacine. As the soul of the film is communal harmony Artha has been shot in an ancient fort of Gulbarga where people belonging to different communities are living in the same place. The very reason for choosing this location is to portray the past glory and the present fact on the same plane. Though the story of the film is based on a family of North Karnataka, Suresh has not used their local language to make it more generic as this can be story of any region he says.