Actor Shahid Kapoor in an interview urged the audience of South India to wholeheartedly accept and watch Hindi movies just as they do for Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam and Kannada films.
The actor also highlighted the comparison of Hindi action movies to the southern ones like Telugu film RRR, and Kannada KGF: Chapter 1 and 2. Shahid cited example of Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan whose involvement has ‘made very good action films’.
In conversation with Bollywood Spy, “I think hamari Hindi actions films slow down iss liye huyi thi kyunki Covid-19 ke time, international travel aur uss tarha ka genre hamare Indian filmmakers pasand karte hain, toh wo abroad shoot karna hi impossible ho gaya tha. To travel was very difficult, toh wo do saal jo gaye hain, unka impact teen-chaar saal chalega (Due to the Covid-19 pandemic our filmmakers were not able to shoot abroad for their big-scale action films, therefore such films were not released for some time)… but otherwise from Hindi cinema’s standpoint of action films, our biggest superstars, whether it is Salman Khan or it is Akshay Kumar, or whether it is Aamir Khan in Ghajini, I think we have made very good action films. Hrithik Roshan is very, very good in action, War was fantastic.”
He further states, “Mujhe nahi lagta we should draw any kinds of lines, and I would say that for even the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada audience, I would say ki aap bhi Hindi films dekho, kyuni Hindi audience toh dil khol ke aapki films accept kar rahi hai. Toh aap bhi hamari films accept karo, toh hi toh cinema grow karega. Toh khula dil hona chahiye, woh acceptance honi chahiye aur har taraf se honi chahiye (There should be no division. Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada audience should also accept Hindi cinema the way the Hindi audience has wholeheartedly accepted south Indian films. They should also have a big heart). I feel like everybody should work with each other… everybody should come together to add more value, so more people go to the theatres. But everybody should have the same attitude.”
Bloody Daddy’s screening in Mumbai
Shahid will be next seen in Bloody Daddy which also stars Sanjay Kapoor, Ronit Roy, Rajeev Khandelwal and Diana Penty and has been helmed by Ali Abbas Zafar. The film is set to stream on June 9 on JioCinema.
