I am not really missing theatre as I get to act in films, that too in different languages, such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Marathi, my mother tongue.
Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.
I have been watching all kind of films and I am a bit familiar with Kannada, Telugu and Tamil.
I have done films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. I don't find any difference.
Telugu is a lot like Kannada, so I don't have a problem with Telugu. But Tamil is very difficult to learn, man.
'My Country, My Music' is about bringing music in languages like Tamil, Telegu, Kannada, Malyalam, and Marathi together. It's about bringing musical genres together, different scenarios in which music is displayed in our country in one show.
Bollywood is a different ballgame. I am quite used to Tamil and Telugu films.
My mother tongue is Telugu. I was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu.
I did Kannada when I was in college. I wasn't even sure of what I was doing. I started figuring out my career in acting when I began doing Telugu and Tamil films.
In fact, my earliest films were in Tamil and Telugu and since then I have been acting in all languages.
Tamil is almost like my mother tongue and for quite some time, I had been concentrating on Telugu.
I am not familiar with Telugu, Tamil or Malayalam and tend to feel they are foreign languages to me.
Besides Kannada, I also know Telugu and Tamil fairly well.
I have done 33 films in one year, for which I hold a Guinness Book World record. Plus I've done songs for all languages from Hindi to Malayalam, Punjabi to Telugu, and Kannada to Oriya.
I've done a host of Tamil and Telugu films, a Bengali one, too.
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.
I was eight years old when I was offered a film. And before I knew it, I was acting in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu movies.