 "Adi Shankaracharya" incidentally was the first ever Sanskrit movie.In 2005–2006, Professor P.R.Mukund (a disciple of Sri Bannanje) along with his colleague Dr. Roger Easton from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and Dr. Keith Knox of the Boeing Corporation in Hawaii, undertook the painstaking process of imaging and preserving the original "Sarvamoola Granthas" authored by Madhvacharya himself.