Arun Sagar to turn director

Kannada film actor and art director Arun Sagar, who recently shot to fame after being declared the first runner-up on a popular Kannada reality show, will try his hand at direction this year. Arun had announced a film called Malla Kamba earlier, with Vijay in the lead, but the film never took off. His new project is titled Joker and is a comedy, scheduled to go on the floor in September this year.The film will be an audience-funded project.