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.