Kannada Producer Bala Muthaiah Arrested In Hyderabad

The Kannada Producer, distributor and wall poster printer Bala Muthaiah absconding from Bengaluru police on a cheating case and court order of arrest was found late on Tuesday at Hyderabad by JP Nagar Police.


In a cheque bounce case the corporation councilor Dhanaraj of Dharmaraya Devasthana Ward filed a case in the court. The cheque amount was Rs.40 lakhs that Bala Muthaiah had taken during the release of ‘Ramakrishna’ Kannada film that starred V Ravichandran and Jaggesh.

The JP Nagara police on a court order conducted a thorough inquiry and found Bala Muthaiah in Hyderabad. He was produced to the court on Wednesday afternoon in Bengaluru.

Bala Muthaiah the wall poster printer for number of Kannada films from Sivakashi is a well known personality. He took the distribution of ‘Aptha Mithra’ (starring Dr Vishnuardhana, Prema, Ramesh Aravind – in the direction of P Vasu, produced by Dwarakish – it was later made as ‘Chandramukhi’ by Tamil super star Rajanikanth donning the lead role) and found huge success. He made two films in Kannada ‘Nammanna’ starring Kichcha Sudeep and ‘Ramakrishna’. Both were flops in the box office. Nammanna was also in the censor battle.

The profit earned by Bala Muthaiah was invested in Kannada films and he lost the money from where he earned a bumper.