Actor Yash has announced an initiative to support daily wage earners of the Kannada film industry. In an Instagram post, the 35-year-old pledged to support more than 3,000 cine artistes, workers, technicians of Sandalwood by crediting a one-time payment of Rs 5,000 to each of their bank account. Taking to his social media, Yash posted a message that read: "The COVID-19 has proved to be an invisible enemy that has dismantled the livelihoods of innumerable people across our country. My own Kannada film fraternity has been badly affected as well.
Continuing further he wrote, Yes, these are not times to just talk, instead these are times where we have to stand with these families. So, to each of the 3,000 odd members, which includes all the 21 departments of our film fraternity, I will be donating from my earnings, a sum of Rs 5,000 to their personal accounts." Kannada film industry work has come to stand still ever since the COVID-19 lockdown was enforced in 2020. On the work front, Yash currently awaits the release of KGF: Chapter 2. The film, being directed by Prashanth Neel, also stars Sanjay Dutt and Raveena Tandon in important roles. KGF: Chapter 2 is the second part in the KGF franchise which stars Yash in the lead. The second part will be dubbed and released in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam as well. On the personal front, Yash topped the list of Most Desirable Men of 2020 for the third consecutive year. It was the film KGF that made him a star at a national level. The film became the highest-grosser film of Kannada of all time and cemented the position of Yash as one of the most liked stars of Kannada cinema.