"Kasturi Nivasa" was Rajkumar's second film to be colourised and then theatrically released, after "Satya Harishchandra" (1965), a colourised version of which was released in 2008. The project to colourise "Kasturi Nivasa" was taken up by its producer K. C. N. Gowda. With parts of the film's negatives damaged, the first step in colourisation involved procuring the archival print from the Karnataka film archives. Bits of the negatives were then procured from other sources and spliced together to restore the original quality of the film (in black-and-white). The colourisation work was carried out by 60 personnel for a period of 20 months, who coloured each of the 215,000 frames of the original film. The music of the film was also recreated. The audio of the film stored digitally was converted to 5.1 surround sound.