Bengaluru: The government on Sunday announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the two stuntmen who drowned last week at the TG Halli reservoir during the filming of an action sequence for a Kannada film.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced the compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to the families of Anil and Uday, officials said.
The incident occurred on November 7 when Anil and Uday, along with popular actor Duniya Vijay, were performing a stunt to shoot the climax of "Maasthi Gudi" for which they had to jump from a helicopter into the reservoir, but it went awry.
Their bodies were fished out after an intense search operation that went on for a couple of days involving the National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster Response Force, Fire department, locals and scuba drivers.
