BENGALURU: "Listen to Jaggesh, stay at home and safe," said a message in Kannada, with a screenshot of a popular scene from the hit comedy movie ‘Eddelu Manjunatha’, posted on the official Twitter handle of Bengaluru city police.
The movie features comedy movie star Jaggesh essaying the role of a lazy, good-for-nothing person who stays off work and remains at home.
While staying home is not desirable in regular times, in times of covid-19 it is the thing to do. And Bengaluru Police has been leveraging humour and social media to drive "home" the point. “There is corona outside so let us remain peacefully indoors," says another message within the tweet mentioned above, tweaking the original dialogue with a bit of comic timing-- and