With grief surrounding the entire team of ‘Aryan’ Kannada cinema – the first combination of century hero Shviarajakumar and dazzling Ramya has commenced shooting with Gurudut taking over the unfinished portions of recently demised director D Rajendra Babu.

Chi Gurudut son of veteran lyricist of Kannada cinema has studied the concept of late director D Rajendra Babu and agreed to do according to his ideologies. Gurudut is a well known actor and directed films like ‘Samara, Datta and Kamannana Makkalu’ – actors like Shivarajakumar, Darshan, Sudeep, Doddanna, Ramya and others have acted under his direction. Gurudut also happens to be a close friend of Shivarajakumar and his father Dr Rajakumar from his childhood.

D Keshav Films, D Kamar producer of ‘Aryan’ have commenced third schedule and they have not made any formal announcement of change of director in the wake of death of D Rajendra Babu who finished 50 percent of shooting.

Member of Parliament today and progressive actress Ramya is joining the team soon to finish her portion. She plays an athlete and Shivarajakumar a coach in this film.

Archana Gupta, Raghu Mukerjee, Sharat Babu, Bullet Prakash, Vinayaprasad and others are also in the cast. Janardhan Maharshi returns to this film as dialogue writer. He has earlier written script for many of Kannada films.

Chandrasekhar KS is cameraman and Jassie Gift is music composer for this high profile cinema. Jayanth Kaikini, Kaviraj, Yogaraj Bhat, Nagendra Prasad have penned lyrics for ‘Aryan’.