Darshan Thoogudeepa is a Kannada actor, director, producer and film distributor known as the Sultan of Sandalwood. He is considered to be a short-tempered person substantiated by his criminal records of beating and bullying people of different strata, ranging from his wife to waiter to rivals.
Surrounded by a bunch of recovery agents in his family, he enjoyed bullying and harassing people in his presumption of being above law so far.
The Sultan is now in police custody through evidences converging towards him in Renukaswamy murder case, which is the most gruesome murder, a crime of passion of the year 2024. It is also one of the most brutal crimes in the history of criminology.
Ever since the investigation on the aforesaid murder case opened, a pandora of events and crimes associated to Darshan have surfaced, making the Sultan establish himself as a rowdy criminal.
Darshan Thoogudeepa is married to Vijaylakshmi Darshan yet he was deeply rumored to be in a romantic relationship with Pavithra Gowda so much so that Vijaylakshmi had to file a petition to restrain Gowda to stop using her husband's photographs which are substantiating such rumors.
Thoogudeepa has a history of criminal behavior and over the time he has built a strong network using his useful cousins who are strongmen working as recovery agents in their own capacity and maintain black-sites used to abduct and torture people which include even loan-defaulters.
Ironically he has ignored his own sibling elder brother named Dinakar who lives in a 1 BHK apartment.
His on-reel and off-reel characters have stark variations. While on reel, he usually either plays the role of a cop dealing with powerful criminals or plays the role of a deadly criminal with Robinhood attitude.
Having familial and professional links with musclemen and criminals he was expected to stand in By-polls with Congress ticket. In 2024 national elections he had campaigned for Congress candidates.
Several people have a delusion that Darshan is an ardent Hindu and even associate him with Hindutva movement because of his posing with cows and frequent visits to temples and wishes on Hindu festivities. Such association shows the hypocrisy of the media and secularists who try to deter normal Hindus from practicing it. Also criminality is never endorsed in Hinduism.
Darshan was not an ardent Hindu or believer of Hindutva ideology. The cows in photos are his personal cattle he keeps for a better health through in-house mil products. He has never campaigned against cow slaughter or in support of cow vigilantes or performed any sociopolitical activity that is compliant with Hindutva ideology.
If his temples visits makes him a staunch Hindu or Hindutva icon, then his visit to Amritsar Golden Gurdwara should make him Sikh- which nullifies such argument.
