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South Indian stars Rana Daggubati, Shriya Saran and Arya talk about the importance of the South Indian film industry.  See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00Saima's initiative of putting South Indian cinema in such a global platform and putting

00:28it out there and doing events which are as large as what other industries would do and

00:33creating that awareness globally, I think it's important for all of us.

00:36It kind of sends out the right signals, whether it's within the industry or for people outside.

00:40It's really important that we talk about it as Indian cinema and bring it together as

00:45Indian cinema.

00:46Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, all of them are really important and strong industries.

00:50I think revenue is not the benchmark by which you measure artistic or creative ability of

00:57any industry or any creative platform.

01:00Also, you have to understand that Hindi is spoken widely in India.

01:04Because of that, you have bigger business than as compared to Telugu or Tamil or Malayalam

01:09or Kannada.

01:10You have to balance all those things before you say anything like that.

01:13It's just everyone's together in one country.

01:16South Indian films come a long way.

01:17We have all kinds of films releasing, dark comedies, funny comedy or whether it's like

01:21experimental film or an art film or a proper masala commercial film or a star driven film

01:27or it's a multi-star.

01:28You have all sorts of films.

01:30It's not restricted to one kind of filmmaking in South.

01:32It's nice that every sector, like in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, they have different

01:38style of filmmaking and different style of narration and stories that's coming up.

01:44So it's like a collage of so many variety of talent.

01:47There's an advantage or just a comfort level that you have with your own language that

01:50definitely will be there.

01:51Obviously, 30 years you speak Telugu and then suddenly you speak another language.

01:54That doesn't work so easy.

01:55Right now I'm shooting for a couple of films which we're actually shooting by and tri-linguals.

01:59So we're shooting the whole film in Hindi, in Telugu and in Tamil.

02:03So I think that's a real crossover which I'm hoping to make at some point next year.

02:07It's basically, we'll have to do films where it's liked by all the people.

02:11It all depends on the kind of films that you do and how the acceptability factor, how people

02:15take you.

02:16So it's more to do with time rather than you can really plan.

02:20It's not like they are two different industries or it's not like two different countries or

02:25anything.

02:26So there's North and South, the more of Hindi films and the market is huge compared to the

02:31four states in the South, you have the rest of the states for the Hindi films.

02:36So in that way, the market choice I think is very big.

02:39You see, each generation comes with different kinds of stars and it's also changing times

02:43which there was a generation that liked how those actors were, which is why they were

02:47superstars.

02:48There's a generation that likes actors the way they are now, which is why they're superstars

02:51now.

02:52So it's each one to their own.

02:54So an actor is ultimately about understanding the needs of probably the largest amount of

02:58the auditorium and identifying which space you actually want to be in.

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