 Director Jyotiprasad faced a major financial crisis after his first film "Joymoti" (1935) failed commercially.He spent more than Rs 50,000 and was in debt in the late 1930s; he was fortunate to gather together just Rs 15,000 to make his dream of making a second film come true.Desperately seeking to compensate the loss he incurred in the making of "Joymoti", he began shooting "Indramalati" in late 1937.