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  • Before Mahesh Babu, Allu Arjun, Shruti Haasan and 4 more South stars talked about their Bollywood 'experience'; here's what they said

Before Mahesh Babu, Allu Arjun, Shruti Haasan and 4 more South stars talked about their Bollywood 'experience'; here's what they said

From Mahesh Babu to Shruti Haasan, Allu Arjun, KGF 2 star Yash and more, let's have a dekko at the South stars who opened up on Bollywood with respect to work.

  • By Shivani Pawaskar
  • Published: May 13 2022, 18:57 PM IST
   
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South stars who spoke about Bollywood

South stars who spoke about Bollywood

These days there has been a hot debate on Bollywood and South films. While a lot of South films are released 'pan-India', Bollywood seems to be lacking the magic of the South films. While South films are making and breaking records and leaving Bollywood films behind at the box office, here's a dekko at the South stars who have opened up on Bollywood. From Mahesh Babu, Shruti Haasan, Allu Arjun and more, here are South stars who talked about Bollywood.

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Mahesh Babu

Mahesh Babu

Recently, the Sarkaru Vaari Paata actor's statement on Bollywood went viral. He had said, I did get a lot of offers in Hindi, but I don't think they can afford me. I don't want to waste my time working in an industry which can't afford me. The stardom and the respect I get here (in the South) are huge, so I never really thought of leaving my industry and going to some other industry. I have always thought of doing films and becoming bigger. My dream is coming true now and I can't be happier. His statement was blown out of proportion. His team later clarified saying, Mahesh has clarified that he loves cinema and respects all languages. He said he is comfortable doing the film where he has been working. Mahesh said he is happy to see his dream coming true as Telugu cinema is going places.

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Priyamani

Priyamani

The Family Man actress Priyamani had opened up on the stereotyping of the South people. She had told, There was a time when earlier we had people like Sridevi, Rekha, Hema Malini, & Vyjayanthimala, who ruled Bollywood. And then there was a dearth you know. We have only Hindi-speaking actors in Bollywood and they used to sort of portray South Indians- could be somebody from Chennai or Kerala – they used to portray them as people who used to not speak Hindi in the normal way - ‘Aiyo, kaisa ji, kya bolta ji’. After a point they stopped that and started getting South technicians to Bollywood. And, we saw a surge of a lot of South Indian technicians coming to Bollywood and making their mark successfully. And right now, I’m very happy that finally South talent is also getting recognised here in Bollywood and South stars are also getting their due.

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Shruti Haasan

Shruti Haasan

Salaar actress Shruti Haasan had once said that she felt like she was an outsider in Bollywood. In an interview, she had said, I honestly have many times felt like an outsider, especially in Bollywood, there is a whole North-South thing that constantly happens. For example, if I’m doing three Telugu films and three Tamil films, they’ll say, ‘Oh, but you’re not focusing on Hindi,’ as if that is the only industry in the country. And it isn’t. So I have always felt like an outsider.

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Dhanush

Dhanush

Atrangi Re actor Dhanush had opened up on the divide between North and South films, saying, I was always against (the divide between) south and north Indian films. It is an Indian film and that is how it should always be. We are heading towards that (change) at a very rapid pace. It is very healthy. It is helping all of us with our films, actors, and creative people globally.

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Allu Arjun

Allu Arjun

Pushpa 2 star Allu Arjun had opened up on getting offers from Bollywood. I have got an offer but nothing concrete or exciting. It does take courage, you have to risk it (to work in another industry). When we are the protagonist of the films that we do, anybody who comes to us will only come with the offer to play a protagonist, I would not be interested in anything (else). And it is very well understood. Even the other person will not come and it doesn’t make sense to ask such a big star to play a second role as it damages the film, they also know it. You have to work as a protagonist, as a main lead, he had said.

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Ram Charan

Ram Charan

RRR star Ram Charan had also reacted to Salman Khan's question. He had a different take on it. He said, I want a director from Hindi cinema to make a pan-Indian film which caters to even the South. Salman tweeted saying, I really love Ram, Rajamouli, and Tarak’s work but why are our films not being appreciated in the South. It is so candid of him to say that but I believe it is the writing; it is the director who has to transcend these boundaries of. Every writer should write movies like Vijayendra Prasad (RRR) or Rajamouli and say ‘believe in it. I want to make an Indian film where I want to work with talent from here (Bollywood), I want directors to explore the talent from the South and make bigger films so that we have bigger budgets and we see bigger numbers at the end of the day.

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Yash

Yash

Recently, KGF 2 star Yash had opened up on Salman Khan's remark about Bollywood films not working while South films taking over. He had clarified it by saying, It's not like that. Our films also never used to get this kind of reception, but what is happening from that part of the world, they have started playing dubbed versions here, people became familiar with the content of what we are creating. What worked today is people got familiar with our way of storytelling, our cinema, so it has not happened overnight. That has been there for a few years and eventually, they started understanding the content, the expression of the direction and everything.

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