Earlier this week, a film producer shot dead an acquaintance, and is now on the run.

Govardhan Murthy, who produced the flop Shivarajkumar film Maadesha, pulled out his gun and fired two rounds at Vinod, who was visiting him at his resort for a party. The bullets pierced Vinod's stomach, and he died a little later.

Real estate has done strange things to Bangalore, which most visitors from bigger cities used to describe as sleepy. This city is bustling 24/7, and has given up the luxury of sleep. The demand for land has made millionaires out of people who lived modestly till recently. They don't know what to do with the money: much of it is unaccounted.

Many land developers get into the movies as it gives them a chance to appear in the papers with the stars and perhaps strike friendships with the starlets.

Govardhan Murthy ran a resort. He is also said to have given away sites to policemen. And no one will be surprised to know that he is politically well connected. When you mix money, glamour, politics and guns, you get a deadly cocktail.

Our reporters are trying to dig up their background. Let's see what they get.