Mookajjiya Kanasugalu (film)  Mookajjiya Kanasugalu is a 2019 Kannada film directed by P. Sheshadri, based on the Jnanpith Award-winning novel of the same name by K. Shivaram Karanth. The film was produced by Navyachitra Creations and written by P. Sheshadri. Mookajji is an eighty-year-old woman who lives in coastal Karnataka. Mookambika, as she was named at birth, was married off as a child before she could attain puberty, but the boy she was married to died within two days of the wedding. As a result, Mookajji now lives in her maternal house with her brother’s grandson, Subbaraya and his wife Seetha who have two children. Subbaraya discovers that Mookajji has the power of extrasensory perception. She can touch any object or talk to a person and see the history behind that object or person. One day Subbaraya brings a small wicker basket to Mookajji so that she can store her betel nuts in it. Upon touching it, she sees a vision of the history of that basket. She begins to narrate the story of Ramanna and Nagi. Ramanna and Naagi  Naagi makes a wicker basket as a sign of affection for her husband Rammana who rejects it. He mistreats Naagi regularly and denies her affectionate advances which saddens her. Naagi is noticed by a rich merchant in the village named Sheenappa who begins to lust after her. He visits her home when Ramanna is absent and propositions her to come to his house. Naagi is reluctant. Refusing to give up, Sheenappa arranges for Ramanna to leave the village for a few days by giving him errands to run in other places. Naagi reluctantly goes to Sheenappa’s house where they make love. Naagi and Sheenapa continue their affair. Ramanna notices this one day and leaves her. Sheenappa and Naagi soon have a child together. But Naagi notices Sheenappa having an affair with another woman and confronts him. He throws her out of the house along with their infant daughter. Naagi is then forced to make wicker baskets for a living to support herself and her child. Ramanna goes to Naagi to take her back but Naagi refuses saying that she is a defiled woman and cannot return to him.