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Entertainment 'Bigg Boss' Kannada season 8 is hosted by popular Sandalwood actor Kichcha Sudeep.Tnm StaffScreengrab/ Colours KannadaThe opening night of Bigg Boss Kannada season eight premiered on Sunday, February 28, with a grand event comprising of various dance and music performances. Actor Kichcha Sudeep, the host of the show, introduced the contestants of the current season. Before they were introduced by Sudeep, the director of the show, Parameshwar Gundkal revealed that around 17 contestants have been shortlisted for this season. Similar to the Hindi show, Bigg Boss Kannada season eight will be streaming on Voot Select for 24 hours from Monday to Friday. Viewers can download Voot Select app or log on to Voot.com to watch the show. It will also be aired on Colours TV Kannada throughout the week. Here’s all you need to know about Bigg Boss Kannada season eight contestants: Niddhi Subbaiah Kannada actor Niddhi Subbaiah is popular...

SandalwoodDirector Sujay Shastry has a field day experimenting with various kinds of comedy, from slapstick to black humour.Aravind ShwethaGubbi Mele Brahmastra feels like a thematic sequel to Raj B Shetty’s Ondu Motteya Kathe. Raj here plays a software engineer Venkata Krishna Gubbi who prefers to be called Krissh rather than Gubbi – probably a pop culture reference to the Hrithik starrer, only identified by the spelling in subtitles. His folks want him to settle down, but Raj wants to fall in love. Debutant director Sujay Shastry also plays Nani, Krissh’s cockeyed best friend who is a pessimistic philosopher uttering food metaphors about the big bad world. There is an ensemble cast of quirky characters starring veterans like Shobraj, Babu Hirannaiah, Pramod Shetty, Girish Shivanna, Aruna Balraj and Manjunath Hegde. The breezy first half establishes the quirky characters and Krissh’s chucklesome situations of finding a bride. He zeroes in on Purple Priya,...

SandalwoodOne is the Ravi Sagar directorial ‘Muthu Kumara’ and the other is ‘Gadinadu’ that will be directed by Nag Hansur.Digital NativeDigital NativeSanchita Padukone’s last Kannada movie release as heroine was Satya Harishchandra, which hit the marquee in 2017 and since then she had not had signed any Kannada film. Busy with films in Tamil, Sanchita has now got an opportunity to work in Sandalwood again. She has been roped in for two Kannada films and they are the Ravi Sagar directorial Muthu Kumara, in which she will be paired opposite Dhanush of Psycho fame. She has also inked a deal to star in another Kannada movie that will be directed by Nag Hansur. The film is titled Gadinadu and she will be sharing screen space with Prabhu Surya, a debutant. In an interview with The New Indian Express the actor said, “It is every actor’s dream to work...