The CM has agreed to be part of the film and only the date of the shooting has to be finalised considering his schedule. The shooting for Kavitha
Lankesh
's film Summer Holidays is almost complete. "There is a scene in the film where the CM's character is portrayed.
Instead of going for an actor, I hit upon the idea to cast the real chief minister. He agreed. We cannot decide the time and date of shooting. He has a busy schedule every day. We will shoot the scene when he gives us the time," Lankesh said speaking to Mirror. This will be Siddaramaiah's first tryst with acting. His late son
Rakesh had acted in a half-complete film more than a decade ago. Summer Holidays is a children's film that marks the debut of Kavitha Lankesh's daughter
Esha
and nephew
Samarjit
(son of director
Indrajit Lankesh).
Politicians in Karnataka were not averse to films. Former chief minister
Ramakrishna Hegde
had acted in two Kannada films; Marana Mrudanga and Praja Shakti. Another former CM,
HD Kumaraswamy was a film producer before turning politician and recently returned to film production by launching his son
Nikhil
.
Politicians like
Ramesh Kumar
, Katta Subramanya Naidu, BT
Laliltha Naik
and others have also fallen for the charms of films. None of them however made an impact.