Actor Siddharth's Chithha event disrupted over Cauvery row; Prakash Raj, Shiva Rajkumar apologise
Rang De Basanti fame faced disruption by pro-Kannada right wing outfit protesters on Thursday during a promotional event of his upcoming movie Chithha. Amid a simmering row of Cauvery water sharing between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, members of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike Swabhimani Sene on Thursday interrupted a press conference being held by actor Siddharth for his film and demanded him to leave the venue. The actor was promoting his upcoming film 'Chikku' in Bengaluru when the members of Karnataka Karnataka Rakshana Vedike Swabhimani Sene disrupted the event, saying that it was not an appropriate time for him to do that as Tamil Nadu is demanding Cauvery River water from Karnataka.
On Friday, actor and politician Prakash Raj extended an apology to Siddharth on behalf of ‘sahrudya’ (tender hearted) Kannadigas. Prakash wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter), “Instead of questioning all the political parties and its leaders for failing to solve this decades' old issue.... Instead of questioning the useless parliamentarians who are not pressurising the centre to intervene..
Troubling the common man and artists like this can not be accepted.. as a Kannadiga .. on behalf of Kannadigas.
sorry #Siddharth #justasking." Further, Kannada actor Shiva Rajkumar, who was recently seen in Rajinikanth-starrer 'Jailer' has apologized to Siddharth on behalf of the protesters. As per a Times of India report, the actor extended his apologies in Kannada, "Today, on behalf of my industry, I would like to say very sorry to Mr Siddharth. I am very hurt and such a mistake will never happen again.
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