Sridevi to Asin and Shruti Hassan: What south Indian actors mentioned about working in Bollywood

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Actors like Sridevi, Shruti Hassan and Genelia D'Souza have all shared about their experiences of doing Bollywood films.
Actors like Sridevi, Shruti Hassan and Genelia D’Souza have all shared about their experiences of doing Bollywood movies.

Let us check out another south Indian actors, who’ve labored in Bollywood, and what they mentioned about it.

Asin

The actor made her Bollywood debut reverse Aamir Khan in Ghajini. Her efficiency garnered essential acclaim and the movie went on to develop into an enormous success. Asin then went on to work with extra Bollywood superstars together with Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn.

In an interview with PTI from 2014, the actor had mentioned that it’s a flawed notion that she solely works with superstars. “It is a wrong interpretation. I am happy that I have got to work with established actors. But apart from that I am happy to have worked with established actors. But apart from them I am open to do films with anyone. The script should be good enough.”

Genelia D’Souza

Genelia made her appearing debut with the Hindi movie, Tujhe Meri Kasam. Fans nonetheless bear in mind her as Aditi from Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na, alongside Imran Khan. In a current interview with Siddharth Kannan in 2023, the actor mentioned, “It’s really good to see India is no more regional cinema – South, North, Punjabi or Marathi cinema. It’s a blanket of Indian cinema. In the South, they have a very loyal fan base. They come from a legacy of films. I, on the other hand, was an outsider in two films. But, when I did South films then they used to say that Bollywood dropouts go to the South, at that point in time.”

Shruti Hassan

In an interview with Hindustan Times in 2020, the actor who has worked in a number of Bollywood films 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.”

She had added, “And additionally, as an individual, I’ve all the time felt faraway from the norms of what’s anticipated of a lady or the best way an actress is meant to behave. You know, that is the way it works on this enterprise. I nonetheless haven’t understood what these methods of the commerce, so to talk, are. So I’ve all the time felt like an outsider. I wasn’t introduced up in a really filmy home. My mother and father have been actors however that was simply their job. At residence, it was a creative residence, that was it. It was not assumed that I might be part of the movie trade.”

Tamannah Bhatia

The actor made her debut in 2005 with Hindi movie Chand Sa Roshan Chehra (2005). Since then, the actor has labored in a lot of Tamil and Telugu movies. She was final seen within the net sequence Aakhri Sach.

In an interview with Pinkvilla in 2022, she mentioned, “I think it is essential, in south fans are very loyal. I think they have emotion around the artists. For them, it is a very personal and different connection with them. But I feel, that kind of stardom in the North, it is of course there but I see it is there for those few stars who have consolidated themselves for over a period of a decade. That loyalty comes through time.”

Sridevi: The first female superstar of the industry ruled Indian cinema and worked in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada language films. According to reports, Sridevi was the first Bollywood actress to charge 1 crore for one of her film.

In an interview with Rediffi in 2012, she said, “I am very happy that I got my identity because of this industry. I don’t think everyone can become an actress. It`s not a joke. You really have to slog. You have to devote your life to be the best. There is no point doing a film just to be a part of the industry.”

Source web site: www.hindustantimes.com

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