Dashing director Puri Jagannadh has good links with the Sandalwood industry and he directed several flicks earlier in Kannada. Puri is having good rapport with Rajkuamr family and also directed the debut movie of Kannada superstar Punnet Rajkumar.

Now after a long time Puri is entering into kannada industry and he is going to direct Deva Gowda’s grandson Nikhil Gowda. This film will be launched in August and will be released in Telugu too.As per reports Puri has been offered a whopping amount of Rs 50 crores to make the debut film of Nikhil Gowda.

Usually kannada star heroes films will be made with maximum budget of 25 crores . But an hefty amount was allotted for debut movie of Nikhil Gowda.  For starters, Rs 50 crores is a huge amount for a Kannada film. Puri is having good track record of introducing star’s sons. He introduced mega power star ram Charan and Kannada power star Puneet Raj Kumar.

Nikhil’s father H D Kumaraswamy is a big politician in Karnataka and his dream is to see to his son as a big mass star. So who else can do better than Puri for that job?