Update :Two more die totalling 3 in all... Several more including security personnel and police men are injured at the funeral site...

ಬಾನಿಗೊನ್ದು ಎಲ್ಲೆ ಎಲ್ಲಿದೆ?
ನಿನ್ನಾಸೆಗೆಲ್ಲಿ ಕೊನೆಯಿದೆ?
ಏಕೆ ಕನಸು ಕಾಣುವೆ?
ನಿಧಾನಿಸು ನಿಧಾನಿಸು...

An icon, perhaps the biggest ever of the state dies and this is what it means...
Funeral today with State respect and honour for the actor at Kanteerava studios, a memorial to be built
His eyes donated as per his wish to Narayana Netralaya
Ofcourse, schools/govt offices and organisations remain shut yesterday and today
Advani's Bharath suraksha yatra called off in Karnataka
Any form of entertainment to remain shut today....cinemas/ TV channels etc etc
Mass hysteria throng the streets, gloomy weather over the state, life comes to a total standstill.
Tears grip the faces of the millions of fans/fellow movie stars descending to see the man one last time
State in flames..Mob turns violent, more than a hundred vehicles burnt in the city
Numerous lathi charge, tear gas attacks....several injured in stampedes and other violence....
A man is reported to have died after being shot by the police near Siddalingiah circle, a hotel is set on fire..
A film stars death, whose many movies out of the 200+ people have watched growing up, a screen idol who gave a new dimension to the 'Gokak Chaluvali' exactly 25 years ago, who was honoured with Padmabhushan, Dadasaheb Phalke, Karnataka Ratna, all this with him belonging to a Schedule Cast, truly does deserve the tears with which he is sent away....perhaps not the violence?