Bengaluru: Sandalwood actor-producer Duniya Vijay was arrested by the High Grounds Police Station limits this morning.
He was arrested for allegedly assaulting and attempting to kidnap Maruthi Gowda, a body builder, who is the nephew of his old friend Pani Puri Kitty.
Vijay, along with three others, was arrested while Maruthi was being treated at Vikram Hospital.
The alleged incident happened near Ambedkar Bhavan where a body building competition was being held.
The case is in progress and investigations are on.
Many actors of Kannada movies, be it a wife beater who went to jail, a divorcee who later mended with his wife, now this one who is a rowdy in real life, but a hero in reel life have been role models for lakh of fans and the fans look upon them for inspiration. It is a pity..
Kannada movie industry is suffering from rowdism for several decades that for the past 70 years no real talent was encouraged ! Who needs talent if you can stop movie theaters from showing anything other than the movies of their sponsors? While Tamil, telugu , Malayalam and even Bollywood had lots of new heroes and heroines, we were forced to pay and watch movies from very limited number of heroes!Many kannada actors moved to other languages and avoided Kannada as they knew they could not survive! Even now I see lousy acting in Kannada by the budding actors who copy the mannerisms of their goods heroes and they don’t even know it is no good!
That also explains why many actors sons prefer to be be acting in movies because th8s is the only industry that needs no talent! And they have their parents taking care of their success!
If you doubt what I am saying, you need to watch the dubbed Kannada versions of Tamil and Hindu comedies and you feel sad they can’t even copy well let alone produce something original!