Kodi Punju

Remember Uday Kiran?

Much as our sympathies lie with the once-rising star, for having had his career so tragically truncated, his was the underdog story gone wrong. Largely limited by voice, adolescent looks and physical build (other than, of course, the lack of a filmi family backing), Uday Kiran was an actor who'd always leave you wondering - will he make it? Will he, with his mild and middle-class looks and demeanour, be any match to the baritone-voiced, sweaty, rugged, tough-talking men populating our movies?

And so it is with Tanish, an Uday Kiran clon....