Bollywood actors principally play unhealthy guys in south cinema, unsure they will be accepted as mainstream hero: Farzi creator

As initiatives from south cinema like RRR and KGF have change into in style globally and in India, artists from all industries are collaborating on many initiatives. Malayalam actor Fahadh Faasil starred within the Telugu movie Pushpa: The Rise (2021) and the Tamil movie Vikram (2022). In creators Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK’s Farzi, which releases on February 10, Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor shares display area with Tamil actor Vijay Sethupathi. The former performs a con man, who’s chased down by Vijay’s police officer within the Prime Video internet collection. (Also learn: Farzi trailer: Shahid Kapoor literally shows how to ‘make money’, can Vijay Sethupathi catch him?)

While many actors from south have starred as mainstream heroes in Bollywood, it hasn’t been the identical for Hindi cinema’s main males. Actors Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, and R Madhavan have had many main roles in Hindi movies. While feminine actors like Taapsee Pannu and Tamannaah Bhatia are capable of land main roles in south cinema, the lads have not been so fortunate.

Speaking about it, in an interview Galatta Plus, Krishna DK mentioned, “There are a lot of villains in Tamil and Telugu who are from the north. All our actors here have gone there and played bad guys including Manoj Bajpayee.” The filmmaker identified actors who transition to south cinema normally get the elements of the unhealthy guys. Some current actors who’ve performed villains embrace Sonu Sood and Mukul Dev.

Mainstream heroes like Hrithik Roshan and Shahid Kapoor have starred in any south movies. Shahid, who was a part of the identical Galatta Plus interview acknowledged that he hadn’t been provided any movie in one other language but. His co-star Raashii Khanna went on to say, “Honestly when it comes to acceptance of male heroes in the north doing a south film, I don’t know how well that will be accepted in the south, that too as a mainstream hero.”

Recent blockbuster Pathaan, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone, has earned over ₹800 crore on the world field workplace, however it has carried out higher in states that talk in Hindi. In Andhra Pradesh, Pathaan earned round ₹20 crore within the first week, whereas it collected round ₹10 crore in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.