One of the directors of the three decades old Lahari Recording Company, G Thulsiram Naidu, known as Velu, was kidnapped and released after an hour. It showed that underworld activities are still prevalent in Kannada cinema. Major underworld activity was seen during the producer Chidambara Shetty murder case, one and half decades ago. Producer Govindaraju, who is also the councilor of the Bangalore City Corporation, pushed Lahari Velu into a car and demanded money for not seeing the audio CD of 'Olave Mandhara' Kannada film in the stands anywhere. Lahari Velu, who has top connections in the police department, made just one phone call to top cop BB Ashok Kumar and saw to it that the five who took him, ran away leaving him at Vidhana Veedhi, late on Wednesday night. Lahari Velu is perplexed with this kind of activity is taking time to overcome this kidnapping.