Pawan Kumar
, the director of “
Lucia
,” is all set to release his next film, “U-Turn,” a thriller film. It was rumored that Pawan Kumar would be dubbing “
The Jungle Book
” in Kannada, which has been released in English, Tamil, Hindi and Telugu. However, Pawan rubbished those rumors and said that media misinterpreted his idea. He took to his Facebook and posted, “Ya.. so.. media thinks I am acquiring the dubbing rights. NOPE... I AM NOT. In principle I would want to... but I am very busy with my film.. hence I will assist the crowd.. the audience in doing it.. but can't spearhead the project.
I am still following up with Disney. But I’d want someone or a group to come fwd n do the work. I shall be there to help through.” Earlier, Pawan said that there is nothing wrong in dubbing good movies and dubbing other language movies will not affect the Sandalwood films. But, he never stated that he will dub the movie and release.