Encouraging To See Hindi And South Cinema Gap Being Bridged: Malavika

Malavika Mohanan, who is in Hyderabad to shoot for a Tamil film with Dhanush, finds it “encouraging that the gap between Bollywood and south cinema is now being bridged”, with leading Bollywood actors wanting to work in the south and vice versa.

- Suhas Yellapantula

“I’ve grown up in Mumbai but being of south Indian origin, I’ve always watched Malayalam movies with my folks. For me, films from the south and Hindi film industries have always been on par. I’ve seen that a lot of people in Mumbai have this bad habit of looking at the south film industry as a “smaller” industry, and they think it’s inferior to Bollywood. And I keep telling them that they’re just being ignorant and they don’t know the potential that there is in the south,” she says, adding, “I think the film that shut everyone up was Baahubali. It came like a tsunami and made people sit up and realise that this is what the south Indian film industry can do. Since then, actors too have been more open to working in the south.”