Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who delivered a blockbuster year for his fans with Atlee’s directorial Jawan , revealed his desire to work in a South genre film after Dil Se . In conversation with Giona A. Nazzaro, Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival, SRK shared his thoughts on South cinema.
He said, “If you ask me honestly, for years, me calling Indian cinema regionalized is wrong. It’s just that our country is so vast that we don’t have different dialects across the nation; we have languages across the nation. So, there is Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali—there are so many languages.
Somehow, it’s all Indian cinema. For me, the greatest storytelling parts of India, if I could say it like this, are South Indian. They have some outstanding storytelling.
” Shah Rukh praised South cinema as fantastic in terms of cinematic and technical quality. “Malayalam cinema, Telugu cinema, Tamil cinema—they have some of the greatest superstars of our country, and we all know it. In India, it’s just that recently, with huge hits including Jawan , RRR , and Baahubali , everybody started noticing it all over.
But cinematically and technically, South cinema is really, really fantastic,” the Pathaan actor stated. King Khan also revealed that his desire to work in the South genre came after working with Mani Ratnam in Dil Se . He added, “It was my desire, after working with Mani Ratnam in Dil Se , to work in a South genre film.
Not just get a South Ind.