India, Oct. 23 -- When the teaser of the upcoming Kannada web series Maarigallu dropped, fans of the late Power Star Puneeth Rajkumar could barely contain their excitement. In establishing the basic premise of the show, which is about the hunt for a lost treasure from the erstwhile Kadamba dynasty, the teaser featured an AI avatar of Puneeth as Mayurasharma, the founder of the Kadamba dynasty. The show, fans reckoned, would have more of this.

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But on October 23, when the trailer of the show dropped, there was no sign of this, which had audiences wondering how much screen space would be devoted to th...