Puneeth Rajkumar’s passing on Pawan Kumar’s birthday is a big loss for the filmmaker

The duo was to collaborate on a film called Dvitva, as soon as Puneeth finished work on James. Pawan shared a heartfelt note about his association with the late actor.

Puneeth Rajkumar and Pawan Kumar

When Lucia and U-Turn maker Pawan Kumar announced a collaboration with Power Star Puneeth Rajkumar, called Dvitva, it evoked a lot of curiosity, considering that the filmmaker is not known to make run-of-the-mill commercial entertainers. Fans and movie folk were waiting eagerly to hear more about the film, which was to take off shortly after Puneeth. With the pandemic delaying James, and subsequently Dvitva, the filmmaker was hopeful of a November start to their first film together. But that was not to be, with the actor passing away tragically on October 29, which, coincidentally, was also Pawan’s birthday.

The filmmaker then took to social media to share a heartfelt note about his association with Puneeth. “People change with time, I don’t like what they become. But in my memories, they stay the way I had loved them.” - Dvitva

“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 that 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,” wrote Pawan.

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