The historical Kannada film 'Gandugali Kumara Rama' is making news in one way or the others from the day of beginning. The latest is that in one day 12 different make up was applied for Shivrajkumar. Director Bhargava in his 50 th film has completed 32 days of shooting of 'Gandugali Kumara Rama' and he is extremely happy with the cooperation extended by superstar Shivrajkumar.

The second schedule of the film starts from January 5 at Tavarakere. So far in eight different sets the talkie portions of the film was completed.

Sundarnath Suvarna is the cameraman. Su Rudramurthy Sastry and Veerappa Maralawadi have jointly penned the dialogue for this film.

Shivrajkumar is playing the double role. Srinath, Srinivasamurthy, Ashok, Ramesh Bhat, Doddanna, Avinash, C.R.Simha, Shobaraj, Kishore, Rajesh and others are in the cast.