'Felt Humiliated': Chiranjeevi Recalls A Time When Hindi Cinema Was Portrayed As Indian Cinema

Megastar Chiranjeevi shared his thoughts on Hindi Cinema being recognized as Indian Cinema at a recent event. The actor was attending Acharya's pre-release event when actor Chiranjeevi narrated an incident in 1989.?

He said he had flown down to Delhi as his film Rudraveeni was honored with the Nargis Dutt award. While recalling the event, he said that a day before the award ceremony, the government organized a high tea during which.?

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Sharing the incident that disappointed him, he remembered that the wall portrayed icons like Prithviraj Kapoor to Amitabh Bachchan with a brief about them, but actors from the south were snubbed.?

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He said, "I kept walking expecting to see something on south films. However, there was only a still of MGR with Jayalalithaa and a photo of Prem Nazir. They titled it south Films. Just that. They did not recognize stalwarts like Raj Kumar or Vishnuvardhan or NT Ramarao or Nageshwara Rao or Sivaji Ganesan, or even the legendary filmmakers of our industries. I felt very humiliated at that moment. It was like an insult. They portrayed Hindi cinema as Indian cinema. While other films were categorized as ‘regional films’ and were not given respect,”

Even though he recalls talking about it back then, he said he did not receive any response.

He said finally, films like Baahubali and RRR are making the nation recognize directors, actors, and writers from south India.?

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Chiranjeevi added that the films from the South are breaking the regional barriers and respectfully earning the tag of being pan-Indian films.?

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He praised Yash’s KGF 2 and Allu Arjun’s Pushpa. He said that with the success of these films, the actors, including Prabhas, have become pan-India actors.?

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The 66-year-old Actor concluded the speech by expressing his movie Acharya will break the ‘myth’ that actors, who enjoyed blockbusters at the box office with a SS Rajamouli film, went on to fail miserably with their next release.

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