The Hindu’s Kannada cinema roundtable 2024: Meet the mavericks of Sandalwood
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The Hindu’s Kannada cinema roundtable 2024: Meet the mavericks of Sandalwood

The Hindu  

Rukmini Vasanth, an emerging actor from the Kannada film industry, felt Upendra’s directorial UIwas the standout moment in Kannada cinema in 2024. Kannada cinema roundtable 2024: Rukmini, Chethan, Srinidhi, Sandeep, Nagarjun Sharma Rukmini was part of the The Hindu Kannada Cinema roundtable at the Courtyard in Bengaluru, along with directors Sandeep Sunkad and Srinidhi Bengaluru, stunt choreographer Chethan D Souza and lyricist Nagarjun Sharma. Incidentally, the film’s Hindi trailer gathered more views than the original trailer, increasing the buzz in Hindi-speaking regions,” he said. I am glad people are noticing it.” Nagarjun, who worked on the Kannada hit independent song ‘Mayavi’ with Sonu Nigam and Sanjith Hegde for Salim-Sulaiman’s YouTube Channel, said he aims to do more such projects.

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