Ravishankar Venkateswaran is the writer and director of Punyakoti, India's first crowdfunded and crowdsourced animated feature film in Sanskrit. He has dedicated his life to making Sanskrit-animated feature films. Punyakoti is an adaptation of a picture book for children written by Ravishankar. It was produced through crowdsourcing and is the first Sanskrit animated film. Punyakoti is based on a famous folk song in Karnataka written in the Kannada language about a cow that speaks the truth at all times. The film got a certificate from the Central Board of Film Certification.