The makers of the approaching Kannada film James held a grand pre-release tournament in Bengaluru not too long ago. The development was once attended by way of fashionable actors around the state and the members of the family of film icon Puneeth Rajkumar, who passed on to the great beyond final yr on the age of 46.
Puneeth’s elder brothers Raghavendra Rajkumar and Shivarajkumar was very emotional speaking on the tournament.
Raghavendra stated, “See how he (the God) stopped a wonderfully operating automobile. Have a look at me, I’m nonetheless limping round right here. And it makes me disenchanted. I suffered a heart-attack, stroke and I’ve a pacemaker fitted. And nonetheless, I’m alive. I can cross in search of him (Puneeth). I can cross the place he’s. I will be able to’t tolerate it anymore, I’m in a position to depart.”
Raghavendra’s remarks made Shivarajkumar destroy into tears. “It pained me so much to peer Ragu (Raghavendra) discuss like that. As a result of all of them are more youthful than me and I’ve to peer Ragu (struggling like that), Appu leaving us. Consider how I should be feeling amongst these kind of issues. I smile, cross to shoot and do dubbing, however I’m hurting inside of. We’ve got celebrated Appu in our circle of relatives so much. He was once everybody’s puppy. I by no means even idea {that a} time would love this come. I needed our folks stayed with us for 100 years. However, they left us. Together with them, the more youthful one left us too. It’s very painful. Now not only for folks in Karnataka, however around the nation. When I used to be capturing in Krishnagiri, not too long ago, the folks of that position got here to me and condoled his loss of life. We have been blessed to have a brother like that,” Shivarajkumar stated.
Puneeth died of cardiac arrest in October final yr when the capturing of James was once in its final leg. Director Chethan Kumar then were given Shivarajkumar to dub for the Puneeth within the film.
“It’s now not simple to dub for every other artist. Particularly, it was once very difficult to dub for Appu. I’ve additionally achieved a small section on this film. For the final 4-5 years, we had mentioned the speculation of appearing in a film in combination. We had even heard a few scripts however it by no means materialized,” he stated.
James additionally stars Priya Anand, Au Prabhakar, Srikanth R. Sarathkumar, Hareesh Peradi amongst others. The movie is due in cinemas this Thursday.