HUBBALLI: Security personnel at a check-post near Ankola were in for a surprise when the driver of a vehicle lowered the window glass. They were stunned to see the lone ‘lady’ in heavy makeup.
It took them sometime and explanation from the person to realise that it was a man – Nilkod Shankar Hedge, a Yakshagana artiste of Uttara Kannada district. The incident was reported at Hiregutti check-post on the night of Ugadi.
Around midnight, Hegde was heading to Ankola after finishing a Yakshagana play in Kumta. As it was late, he decided to drive in the same attire, without even removing his make-up.
Speaking to TNIE, Hegde recalled the checking incident, he said, “They asked me, madam where are you going? When I said, I am not madam, I am sir, they were even surprised. The main officer at the check-post was not from Karnataka and he was the most surprised.”