Puneeth Rajkumar was excited about Dvitva: Pawan Kumar

Today was doubly devastating for filmmaker Pawan Kumar. On his birthday today, he got to know about the unfortunate demise of Puneeth Rajkumar, the lead actor of his next film

Dvitva

. Pawan and

Puneeth

were to commence shooting for the film shortly. Pawan took to his social media pages to share his final goodbye to Puneeth Rajkumar.

"People change with time, I don't like what they become. But in my memores, they stay the way that I had loved them" This phrase was part of a dialogue that I had written for @puneethrajkumar.official movie Dvitva. In my memory he is the excited optimistic actor, a visionary, who wanted to do some outstanding work. He had complete faith in me and the movie we were collaborating on. He made me feel good about myself, everytime we spoke. I want to remember him this way... forever. I haven't been able to see his images or hear anything that's being said about him since morning. Like the theme of the movie we were going to make together.... I want to cherish all the amazing memories we both created.. and I want to keep them alive that way.I spoke to him last evening and was updating him about how we were preparing for the shoot . I was getting all the actors of Dvitva to record their own dialogues, he was very thrilled with this process and was looking forward to listening to the whole film as an audio track even before we began shooting. We had plans to meet on Monday to discuss his costumes and about the shoot schedule was planned for next month.Since my first meeting with him in 2008, at his residence, till the last phone call yesterday... I always felt awesome after talking to him... that is some magic to have.