Tamil + Telugu FILM Industry should be technically thankful to Mr. Modi for taking the entire Cinema on the TOP position in India, despite their relationships with Bollywood were never congenial; and as Bollywood controlled the entire demographics of Indian Cinema.
There was a time before 2014 when Bollywood used to consider Telugu or Tamil Cinema, particularly entire South Indian Cinema, on a second or third rank category; UNTIL, Mr. Modi came in 2014 to power, & then came a time merely in 3-4 years from then, that every Bollywood entity too wanted to be associated with the Telugu & Tamil film fraternity. Truth!
Ask anyone in the Southern Film Industry; whether it is Ram Charan, Allu Arjun, Prabhas, Mammootty, NTR Jr., Mahesh Babu, Sethupathi, Dhanush, Madhavan, Vijay, Chiranjeevi, Ajith, Vikram, Suriya, Samatha, etc. and many more, what difference they themselves experienced before the era of Mr. Modi i.e. before 2014; and after the era of Mr. Modi i.e. till 2024, ON A GLOBAL SCALE. Maybe they won’t answer openly because of their local southern political associations; YET, even they know within their hearts, that after 2014, how both the Telugu & Tamil Cinemas’ reached to its ZENITH after Mr. Modi came to power.
Now, you would tell me, but A.R. Rahman, Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan etc. were always there on the top; then on that point also, I would truly want to listen the inner feelings of all these people associated with South Indian film industry, that after 2014 when Mr. Modi became P.M., didn’t they witness the difference how far the southern cinema reached! That at one point, people thought, Bollywood now would be replaced by the Telugu & Tamil Cinemas’ & and every movie needs to be dubbed in Hindi, rather, watching a Bollywood movie directly. Please go and check the interview even of A.R. Rahman wherein he talked about the reasons why he worked Less in Bollywood. Or ask Haasan how many Bollywood movies he was being offered?
What I’m saying is, be thankful to those who absolutely altered the entire fate of something. And that happened because of Mr. Modi, which the Southern Film Industry ethically shouldn't deny!
And if they do, then they would merely revert back to Pre-2014 era. 😊
© Pranav Chaturvedi 2024