kannada film industry is known for its creativity from the beginning whether in commercial or feature films directors producers and artists have experimented in movies and brought pride to the industry shankar nags kannada film ondi muttina kathe was one such film which made history for its direction when it turned out to be the first indian film to be shot underwater ondi muttina kathe is a 1987 film which was directed by shankar nag and featured rajkumar and archana in lead roles this was the first indian movie that was shot under water in the maldives shankar nag had bought a canadian camera and brought in a german cameraman to shoot the film rajkumar had an underwater action sequence in the ocean without using an oxygen mask and the team pulled it off beautifullythe story of ondi muttina kathe is based on john steinbecks 1947 book the pearl this movie was a huge commercial and artistic success in sandalwood dr rajkumar played the character of muttu who is a fisherman who gets a precious pearl in the ocean and tries to sell it but faces many problems