B'lore's special tribute to Dr Rajkumar

Bangalore: Fans of Kannada film icon Dr Rajkumar thronged his statues across the city to pay their tributes to the late actor.

The state government on its part has organized a week-long theatre festival at the Kantreeva studio, where Dr Rajkumar's mortal remains lie.

"Basically, Rajkumar came from the theatre background, from Company Theatre where there were professional groups running theatre and his plays were very famous. So we thought of connecting that and bringing theatre groups from across the state to participate in the festival,” said Kannada and Culture Secretary, I M Vittal Murthy.

Also marking the superstar's 79th birth anniversary is a week-long photo-exhibition with over 200 stills of the actor in different moods- celluloid moments captured for posterity.

"What would be a better way of associating ourselves with him and creating a tribute by taking up exclusive, unique photos of his and create memories based on that?,” said one of the organisers, Soujanya from Big 92.7 FM.

While fans are doing everything possible to keep Dr Rajkumar alive in the public memory, the icon himself choose to immortalize himself by donating his eyes.

And since donating his eyes was the last act by the legendary actor, his family has started a trust in the name of Dr Rajkumar.

"We want to inform all the people and create an awareness about donating the eyes. Transplants cost at least Rs 10,000- 15,000. We want to identify people who are not able to afford that and bring them to the hospital and see that their eyes are transplanted,” said Dr Rajkumar’s son and actor, Raghavendra Rajkumar.

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