The pinch hitter in various films in Telugu, Hindi and now coming to Kannada via Killing Veerappan` - Ramgopal Verma was in surprise after his formal address. The newly launched GR Pictures honored the legendary director RGV with a shawl, Mysore Topi, garland and a huge photo of Dr Rajakumar as he has picked Dr Shivarjaakumar to play the lead role for his Killing Veerappan`. Hesitantly RGV accepted the honor and a few more garlands from Dr Shivarajakumar fans association came on the formal announcement of the film Killing Veerappan`. V Ravichandran, Upendra and Puneeth Rajakumar did honors for RGV and welcomed the director to Kannada cinema.

Super star Upendra stated that he had kept his Om subject aside for sometime after watching Shiva` debut of RGV. V Ravichandran stated that the actor RGV selected is perfect. Half of the work is solved for you with Dr Shivarajakumar and we expect a sound cinema mentioned V Ravichandran. I am a fan of my elder brother Shivanna, I have nothing to say about his acting and expecting a terrific film pointed power star Puneeth Rajakumar.