An action film featuring Jyothiraj, Karnataka's "Spiderman", who is known for climbing walls and buildings, is ready to hit screens. The film revolves around the life of Jyothiraj, who has earned the name "Kothiraj" as he climbs buildings with the ease of monkeys.
Mr. Jyothiraj, who prefers to be known by his nickname Kothiraj, said the film largely reflects his life – beginning from his childhood to how he was driven to suicide as he felt he was not cared for after the death of his parents and his subsequent fame as a wall and rock climber. The way he climbed a rock to commit suicide was to change his life.
There is a twist to the tale though, he admitted. He liked a girl but he ended up helping her marry someone else but in the film, the girl he loves ends her life at Jog falls. "The director Sebastian David has given a twist," he told presspersons in Mangaluru on Saturday. Puttur girl Aishani Shetty and Deepika Das are the two heroines of the film.
Eye on Burj Khalifa
Mr. Kothiraj, who is planning to climb the 26-floor Inland Windsors apartment at Padavinangadi on Airport Road in Mangaluru on Sunday, said this would be the tallest building he had climbed so far. He is training more than 15 youths in rock-climbing and hopes to climb the 828-metre Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
