• Naseeruddin Shah believes South films are more imaginative and original than Hindi films.
• Akshay’s latest release, Selfiee, opened to lower than expected numbers on Friday.
• Akshay Kumar and Aamir Khan have not been received well at the box office in the last year.

The films being made in the Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu film industries, according to Naseeruddin Shah, are more inventive and original than those made in the Hindi film industry. Even if South Asian films “may be coarse in their taste,” the veteran actor said, “their execution is always perfect.”
At the domestic box office, recent movies like KGF, Pushpa: The Rise, Kantara, and RRR have surpassed Hindi ones. The box office performance of numerous Hindi films starring A-list actors like Akshay Kumar and Aamir Khan has been poor over the past 12 months. Selfiee, Akshay’s most recent film, had a less successful Friday opening than anticipated.

In an interview with Indian Express, the veteran actor discussed why he believed films from the South were faring better than those from the Hindi film industry and consequently had a greater appeal to viewers. He declared, “Even the mainstream Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu films are creative. They are unique. Although they may have crude tastes, they always execute everything perfectly. This is something that I have long discovered. Even if the song picturization in Jeetendra and Sridevi’s cheesy movies was ridiculous, with hundreds of matkas (clay pots) lined up in a row, at least it was an original concept.”

Naseeruddin continued: “It wasn’t just a single dancer in the middle and a line of girls moving erratically. I therefore firmly believe that South Indian films put in more effort, and it is obvious why their films are performing better than the majority of Hindi cinema.”

The actor’s next appearance will be in the Zee5 series Taj-Divided By Blood as Emperor Akbar. On March 3, a historical drama with a fresh take on the Mughals will be released. Aashim Gulati plays Prince Salim, Taha Shah plays Prince Murad, Shubham Kumar Mehra plays Prince Daniyal, Rahul Bose plays Mirza Hakim, and Dharmendra as Sheikh Salim Christi in the television series. Aditi Rao Hydari plays Anarkali.

In addition to Tabu, Arjun Kapoor, Radhika Madan, Konkona Sensharma, Kumud Mishra, and Shardul Bhardwaj, his final film role was in Kuttey. Aasmaan Bhardwaj’s first film to be released in a director’s chair went poorly at the box office.

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