Chitraloka Movies debut film 'Actor' which is being produced by K M Veeresh and directed by Dayal Padmanabhan was launched today amidst much fanfare at the Shiva temple in RT Nagar Bangalore. Dayal and Avinash Shetty are the Co-Producers for the movie.

The film launch was attended by many of the film personalities of the Kannada film industry including KFCC chairman Sa Ra Govindu, KFCC former president KV Chandrashekar, KFCC producers Secretary  MG Ramurthy, KFCC distributors Secretary NM Suresh, Saphire Venkatesh and others. 

While Veteran actor Srinivasa Murthy sounded the clap for the first shot, Smt Tanuja Veersh, Smt Pushpa Srinivasa Murthy and Smt Ashwini switched on the camera. Naveen Krishna faced the camera for the first shot. Suresh byrasandra is the cinematographer

'Actor' is about an actor and Naveen Krishna will be portraying the lead role in the film. Dayal Padmanabhan himself has written the story and screenplay apart from directing the film. Naveen Krishna has written the dialogues while Gowtam Srivatsa is the music director.

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Senior actor Srinivas Murthy clapped the clap board for the first shot of his son Naveen Krishna's new film Actor today. Naveen Krishna said it was the first time his father clapped the board for his film. But Srinivas Murthy announced another shocking fact. He said "I am in the film industry for 40 years now. Not just for my son's film but I had not held the clapboard for any film all these years. This is the first time for me as well. I cannot give reasons for this. No one asked me so far and I never got the opportunity. That's all."

This fact came to light only much later today when Chitraloka editor, KM Veeresh, who is also the producer of the film, called him to thank him for gracing the muharat function held on Monday morning. 

Srinivas Murthy is a veteran, one of the few lead actors of the Rajkumar generation still active in films. This group is a small one but the pride of Sandalwood that includes among others Sudharshan, Rajesh and Anant Nag.  It is a big surprise that one of these veterans and legends of Sandalwood has never been in the pride of place in a film muharat. 

One of the most important celebrating time of a film is its muharat. The person who wields the clap board for the muharat shot is the chief guest for all practical purposes. When unknown people without any contribution to Kannada film industry do this honour, it is also a sad reflection on how we treat the veterans of KFI who have dedicated their lives for it. Let us not forget our seniors in the industry.

If everything had gone right, then actor turned politician Ambarish was supposed to play Sharan's grand father in Raj-Vishnu which is the remake of Tamil hit Rajani Murugan. But due to various reasons, senior actor Srinivasamurthy has played the role of Sharan's grand father in the film.

The talkie portion of the film is almost complete and recently scenes starring Sharan, Chikkanna, Murali and others were shot in Mysore.

'Raj-Vishnu' stars Sharan, Chikkanna, Ravishankar and others in prominent roles. Marathi actress Vybhavi Shandilya has been roped in as the heroine for Sharan in the film. Ramu is producing the film, while K Madesh is the director.

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