India, Nov. 14 -- It took Rishab Shetty's Kantara Chapter 1 to tell Kannada audiences that Gulshan Devaiah, who played the arrogant King Kulashekara, is actually a Bengaluru boy with fluent Kannada language skills. Since this discovery, the Bollywood actor has been speaking extensively to local media and explaining why it took him so long to do a film on home ground, and how he eventually came to collaborate with Rishab.

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Gulshan, who'd moved lock stock and barrel to Mumbai a couple of decades ago in the pursuit of a career in Bollywood, was meant to work with Rishab much earlier, when the actor-filmmaker announced a film called Rudrapray...