with great care taking into account his health requirements i met him less than a month ago for the last time at david hill i was urging him to drop by at one of our shows as he had become so busy with all his other commitments including the recently concluded dasara festivities in mysore he had said just give me a call on the day of the show if i am up to it i will definitely drop by it is hard to imagine that we have lost one of the warmest icons of karnatakas history it is a huge loss for the people of mysore bangalore as well as the rest of the state i will always remember him with lots and lots of affectionthe maharajas rajkumar connect the late scion of the mysore dynasty srikantadatta wadiyar had a filmi connection and that too with the first family of kannada cinema the rajkumars the maharaja has graced the muhurats of three of shivarajkumars films santa mylari and shiva and even sounded the clap board on each of these occasions according to a source wadiyar shared a good bond with the rajkumar family and spoke often about the late actor and his films he also liked shivarajkumar and so when he was invited to do the honours of sounding the clap board for shivannas films he readily agreed apparently it was producer kp srikanth who got the maharaja to join the muhurats each time shivarajkumar who was deeply saddened by the maharajas demise on tuesday told us that he held great respect for the royal family the maharaja used to talk a lot about cinema and cricket during our casual discussions we would even watch cricket matches together at the chinnaswamy stadium says the actor contributed by mahesh h