Having done movies in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi, I have been accepted both in North and down South. I don't believe in divisions. I like to believe that I am working in the Indian film industry.
I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
Telugu and Tamil industries keenly watch Malayalam movies and are appreciative of the content, be it 'Ustad Hotel,' 'Premam' or 'Bangalore Days.' They've also been listening to our music. That's how I was approached for Telugu films.
Commercial Bengali movies are all crass imitation of Telugu and Tamil movies. There are only a handful of directors like Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna Sen and Gautam Ghose who make quality films.
Telugu is a lot like Kannada, so I don't have a problem with Telugu. But Tamil is very difficult to learn, man.
I really miss working in Telugu and Tamil. Fans there adore you.
I am delighted to have won a place in both Tamil and Telugu film industry.
Luckily, neither in my Tamil nor in my Telugu movies do I have roles that require exaggerated emoting.
I have done Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi movies, and each actor that I've worked with is different from the other.
I have tried to show the influence of folk music in Bollywood, in Tamil movies, in Telugu cinema.
I am open to working in all southern language - Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.
True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Telugu actor.
I am very happy that all my films are getting positive reports in both Telugu and Tamil.
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.
Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.
Malaysian Tamil movies are amateurish, with songs picked up from our old Tamil movies and inserted in between.