The eagerly awaited 'Eega' Telugu and Tamil film villain the superstar of Kannada cinema Kichcha Sudeep prefers to call himself as a mini tiger. My father lived like a Tiger. He was addressing the mammoth attendance at Bangalore Town Hall on Friday after Sudeep crowned the 'Abhinaya Chakravarthy'.

In the dozen years of existence the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike headed by Narayana Gowda never picked any one from the film industry for this crown. The reason behind selecting Kichcha Sudeep is because of his good name in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi film industry. In recognition of huge growth of Sudeep the crown was given.

Rebel star Ambarish senior to Sudeep done the felicitation and the crowd inside Puttanachetty Town Hall was whistling continuously for some time.

Kannadigas welcome all language people but Kannada should not face any obstacles stated the recently 60 turned Ambarish in his address.

Sudeep was bit emotional – he is also known as a fine emotional actor.