Sacheen Suvarna

The six-foot-plus body-frame, broad shoulders, rugged looks and sharp eyes - all these ingredients make the man the ideal star material.

Sacheen Suvarna, who has already made a mark selectively in Bollywood movies, was busy with the outdoor shooting of 'SriMokshaa', a Kannada movie, in the picturesque locales around the Nandini river backwaters at Sasihitlu on the outskirts of Mangalore, in early May.

In between the shoots, he mixed freely with the cast and the crew, with no signs of star hang-ups, treating everyone with extraordinary courtesy and a friendly outlook. That has won him everyone's love and admiration and the whole shooting schedule in and around Mangalore for almost a month was all smooth for the whole unit.

Interestingly, SriMokshaa is Sacheen's second Kannada movie, while 'Encounter Daya Nayak', based on the real-life exploits of the renowned supercop of the Mumbai police, was his first.

As for Bollywood, Vaastav: The Reality (1999), Pitaah (2002), Footpath (2003), Black Friday (2004), Shuklam Bharadaram, Kurukshetra and One-Two Ka Four (with Shah Rukh Khan) are a few of his best-remembered movies.

While in Black Friday, directed by Anurag Kashyap, he played the tough role of Shoaib Ghansore, Pitaah gave him an opportunity to brush shoulders with bigwigs like Sunjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Om Puri, Shivaji Satam and others - under the direction of Mahesh Manjrekar. SriMokshaa Produced under the banner of Kohinoor Creations by Vidya Suvarna, Mahindra Salecha, Pramod and Dilip Kothari, the credit of story and screenplay of SriMokshaa also goes to the hero, Sacheen Suvarna, himself. Ritu Sachdeva, a Delhiite, who was 7th runner-up in the Miss India 2006 contest, plays the female lead opposite Sacheen. Bollywoods Mohan Joshi and Sanjay Narvekar who is remembered for his Dedh Phutia role in Vaastav are also prominently featured in the movie.

Based on a storyline by Shiv Jamkhandi, the film is being directed by Keshav Shetty, with music by Sujit Shetty. Extensive shooting at locales in Mangalore, Bangalore, Mandya and other places has been completed. Some memorable scenes have been shot in the Urwa police station, Immaculate Conception church, Urwa and near the Sri Bhagawati shrine in Sasihitlu, said Sacheen.

Editing and dubbing process is now in progress, with dates of release being worked out.