Puneeth Rajkumar last rites: Kannada actor laid to rest with state honours

Late Kannada actor Puneeth Rajkumar was on Sunday morning laid to rest at the Kanteerava Studios in Bengaluru, Karnataka amid grieving family members, friends and thousands of fans. His last rites were conducted with state honours at Dr Rajkumar Punyabhoomi in Kanteerava Studio, next to his father and mother.

The body of the actor was wrapped in the tricolour and kept at the Kanteerava stadium, to let fans and well-wishers pay tributes. Thousands of grieving fans continued to flock the Kanteerava stadium on Saturday to pay their final respects to the Kannada film star.

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Several political and film personalities paid their respects. South Indian film celebrities such as N Balakrishna, Chiranjeevi, Junior NTR, Venkatesh, Arjun Sarja and Prabhu Deva also paid their tributes to the actor.

Earlier, the late actor’s family and the government had planned to perform the last rites on Saturday evening, once his daughter, who was in the US, reached Bengaluru.

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Considered as the Kannada cinema’s reigning star, Puneeth Rajkumar, youngest of the five children of thespian and matinee idol Dr Rajkumar, died at the age of 46, after suffering a cardiac arrest on Friday. The late actor is survived by wife Ashwini Revanth and daughters Drithi and Vanditha.