Bollywood Stars Much Connect More With Southern Audiences – FilmyVoice
Telugu actor Adivi Sesh, who’s within the Capital to advertise his film, “Main”, stated that Bollywood actors need to make an effort to attach with southern audiences to make sure their motion pictures succeed just like the latest pan-India blockbusters from the South.
“Most individuals right here don’t perceive Telugu or Kannada, so I’ve come to Delhi in the present day, and I’ve come earlier than, and I confirmed the trailer earlier than it was launched, so that is the type of respect we’re giving to you. I’m talking to you in Hindi and attempting to attach with the viewers,” stated the actor taking part in the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults braveheart, Main Sandeep Unnikrishnan.
“Had I spoken in Telugu, nobody would have understood,” Adivi Sesh continued. “However when the actors go from right here, they don’t make an effort to talk in Telugu. So, if we ask why Bollywood motion pictures usually are not doing properly within the South, the query is, are the celebrities making an effort to advertise their movies within the South and join with the viewers?”
A bilingual movie, “Main” has been shot in Hindi and Telugu. It will likely be launched in Malayalam as properly for the good thing about audiences within the late military officer’s house state, Kerala.
Speaking concerning the inventive cross-fertilisation between Bollywood and southern movies, Adivi Sesh stated: “I bear in mind seeing the film ‘Premalayam’, which was nothing however the Telugu model of ‘Hum Aapke Hain Koun’. Likewise, the Dilip Kumar traditional, ‘Ram Aur Shyam’ was a remake of Chanakya’s 1964 Telugu movie ‘Ramudu Bheemudu’.”
The actor concluded the dialogue by making the purpose that: “Similar to many South Indian motion pictures have change into so profitable right here, plenty of Bollywood motion pictures have executed properly within the South. As an illustration, I bear in mind watching ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’, one among my favorite motion pictures, in a packed theatre in Hyderabad.”
Adivi Sesh additionally dwelt on how his crew went about selling the movie by truly letting folks view it on BookMyShow ten days earlier than the movie’s launch. He stated they took the choice after they realised that the 2 routes for a Hindi movie promotion in the present day — appearances on “The Kapil Sharma Present” and “Dance India Dance” — weren’t out there to them as a result of Sharma is taking pictures for a film and the season of ‘Dance India Dance’ is over.
“We then began pondering how greatest to succeed in out to most people,” the actor stated. “We thought that as an alternative of continually speaking concerning the film, it could be higher to indicate it to the folks.”
So, he added, “for the primary time in Indian historical past, a giant Indian movie has taken the choice to launch it on-line 10 days prematurely in 10 completely different cities by teaming up with a portal, the place audiences can guide tickets and watch the film.”
Produced by Sony Footage Worldwide Productions in affiliation with Tollywood star Mahesh Babu’s GMB Leisure and A+S Motion pictures, “Main” is directed by Sashi Kiran Tikka. It additionally has Revathi, Prakash Raj, Saiee Manjrekar, Anish Kuruvilla, and Murali Sharma taking part in the lead characters.
–By Ila Sankrityayan
