Kolhapur: A dancer (28), featuring in Riteish Deshmukh’s upcoming movie ‘Raja Shivaji’, drowned in Krishna river at Sangam Mahuli near Satara city on Tuesday evening.

Saurabh Sharma from Ghatkopar was part of the dancing crew of the movie. The production staff told cops Sharma and a few others went into the river to clean themselves after shooting a dance sequence on Tuesday evening.

After some time, the other crew members realised that Sharma was missing and started to search for him. Deshmukh was also on the set at the time of the incident.

The next day, teams from Shivendraraje Rescue, Mahabaleshwar Rescue, and police launched search operations, but he could not be found.

“On Thursday morning, the body floated upwards and got stuck on the other side of the bank. It was taken out. The post-mortem showed that the dancer died due to water lodged in the lungs,” said S B More, sub-inspector of Satara City Police Station.