The dream merchant of Kannada cinema V Ravichandran made the right speech on the right occasion. In fact it is V Ravichandran speech was well thought and even beaten the popular lyricist Jayanth Kaikini address on this occasion.

It is ‘Vinaya’ that Dr Rajakumar had. I had seen many occasions. Vinay Rajakumar if you carry this forward with guidelines of ‘Annavru’ then your road to success is guaranteed assured V Ravichandran, trailblazer of Kannada cinema. In the 3G told today. I am also part of it. In Kulagowrava film Annavru hugged me for the child role. That is the blessing I got throughout. I commenced with Shivanna as he came with ‘Anand’ and I with Prema Loka, he said Rathasapthami and I said Ranadheera, for Puneeth films I am regular guest to switch on camera and now with Vinaya Rajakumar mentioned VR.

At the audio release Vinay Rajakumar was introduced by his father Raghavendra Rajakumar, Shivanna and Puneeth remembered the first shot they faced in their career.

Jeevan, Alok, Ananya, Apoorva team of the cast joined on stage with music director V Harikrishna, cameraman Krishnakumar, director Prakash, Jayanth Kaikini, Ravi Verma, guest actress Nikki Galrani, Editor Sachin, Gururaj Kumar, Lahari Velu, Manohar Naidu, Rockline Venkatesh, SK Bhagwan (he reminded as 4G not 3 G) SV Rajendra Singh Babu, KFCC new President Thomas D Souza, former KFCC President HD Gangaraju, JP Narayanaswamy, Jai Jagadish, Dr Chandini, Edakallu Chandrasekhar were on the dais.

Vinay Rajakumar brought the guitar on stage and V Ravichandran picked the CD of ‘Siddarth’ tucked in it.