Initially, it was a phenomenon called Rajinikanth, the phenomenon became national, international. He has fans in Japan, like major fans there, he also has fans in Canada, the US and everywhere. And after that, Baahubali’ happened. They all set the trend. It made us believe that it is us who are restricting ourselves. It is a much bigger circle, we need to push ourselves, Dhanush told PTI.
After the success of Amazon’s “The Family Man” season two, Samantha Ruth Prabhu told PTI the quality of Hindi content being offered to her has improved “very much”.
Parambrata Chatterjee credited streaming platforms for introducing fans who know him only through Sujoy Ghosh-directed “Kahaani” or his other Hindi projects to his work in Bengali cinema.
“Because of the OTT revolution, people are now aware of the Bengali work that I’ve done,” the actor, who was last seen in Netflix series “Aranyak”, told PTI.
In the old days, it was all about remakes barring some notable cross-overs of talent, be it Dilip Kumar’s 1967 hit “Ram Aur Shyam” or Jeetendra’s “Himmatwala”.
Also, it was the South that nurtured the late Sridevi before she went on to rule Bollywood for over five decades.
Kamal Haasan is another pan India star who has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, and Bengali films.
In the 1980s, veteran actor Jeetendra was frequently paired with Jaya Prada or Sridevi for remakes of Telugu films by T Rama Rao, K Bapayya, K Raghavendra Rao and Dasari Narayana Rao.
Stage is set for 2022 as well with pan India collaborations: Nagraj Manjule’s “Bheed” with Amitabh Bachchan; sci-fi film tentatively titled Project K starring Prabhas and Deepika Padukone; K.G.F: Chapter 2 starring Yash, Sanjay Dutt and Raveena Tandon; Mani Ratnam’s epic historical drama Ponniyin Selvan: I with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Vikram, Saif Ali Khan and Prabhas-led Adipurush , Karan Johar’s Liger with Telugu star Vijay Deverakonda and Brahmastra featuring Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Bachchan and Nagarjuna Akkineni.