India, July 13 -- Kantara actor-filmmaker Rishab Shetty is, according to the latest buzz, set to play Sri Krishnadevaraya in a film to be directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, a role that has been immortalised by the late Dr Rajkumar in Kannada. The assumption is that the project will be made as a Hindi original and dubbed in other south languages, with the worrisome factor the factual authenticity of what will be portrayed onscreen.

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Kannadigas have welcomed the news that Rishab Shetty will play Sri Krishnadevaraya, whose reign as the third ruler of the Tuluva dynasty lasted two decades. Considered one of the most powerful monarchs in Indian history, ...