India, Aug. 9 -- A major development in Sandalwood on August 9 was that an FIR was filed against Kannada actor Dhruva Sarja in an alleged cheating case. The complainant in this case is filmmaker Raghavendra Hegde, who'd made the Darshan starrer Jaggu Dada earlier. Hegde claims to have paid Dhruva a little over Rs 3 cr way back in 2018, after the latter persuaded him to collaborate.

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Dhruva is said to have given Hegde the script of a film, after a story that the latter was working on did not work out beyond a first half. But despite a formal agreement between the duo, ...