J Karthik is a guitarist in his next film

J Karthik

, better known as JK, who was last seen in

Kannada cinema

with Dayal Padmanabhan’s Puta 109, is back. The actor was busy finishing his commitments for his Hindi film Pushpa I Hate Tears, in which he is working with Krushna Abhishek and the Tamil movie Maaligai with Andrea Jeremiah and is now ready for

Neere

. “Directed by Sri Charan, the film, which is a love story, will see me play a guitarist. I had grown a beard for my earlier projects and was set to remove it, but then this film came around and it made sense to retain it for the role of a musician. I am paired with Samiksha in the film, which also stars Dilip Raj in a pivotal role. Shooting begins in the first week of November and will take us to locations across Malpe, Mangaluru, Chikmagalur and Bengaluru. As soon as I am done with Neere, I will take off the beard for my debut foray into the digital space,” says JK.