Why Are Bollywood Actresses Targeting Tollywood?

It is all known that Bollywood actresses like Janhvi Kapoor, Radhika Apte, Taapsee Pannu recently criticised the Tollywood scripts and shooting culture. This has become a debatable topic on social media too.

Janhvi Kapoor made her Tollywood debut with Junior NTR’s Devara movie. But in that movie, her character was just restricted to a few romantic sequences and a song. So she couldn’t get that big break in TFI. On the other hand, she was next seen in Ram Charan’s Peddi. Well, in this movie too, Janhvi’s character didn’t had that good scope to entertain the audience being a complete rural sports drama which elevated Charan as a cricketer, wrestler and para athlete.

Thus her second movie in Tollywood also couldn’t give her good break and some of them also criticised her skin show in the movie too. Of late, she also openly criticised Peddi movie stating that “In the south, very rarely there is a bound script. Very rarely do you see the camera angles. I should have taken advantage of my privilege. It was a violating experience in a way. The good thing that came out of it is that maybe next time a director will rethink twice before presenting a lead actress this way” in Karan Johar’s Koffee With Karan talk show.

Janhvi’s comments in the talk show created a buzz on social media. Some also stated that she had that choice to reject the movie or strongly object those scenes in which she felt uncomfortable.

On the other hand, even Bollywood’s popular actress Radhika Apte also made some objectable comments on Nandamuri Balakrishna’s Legend movie. She was seen as his niece in that movie had some romantic sequences with him. But in her latest talk show, she completely disrespected Tollywood scripts stating, “There was a Telugu film I did where I had to marry my Mama (maternal uncle) in the film. It was the most challenging film. I hated everything about it.”

But when Keerthy Suresh who was also part of this interview stated, “It's a very Tamil and Telugu thing where you marry your uncle.” But Radhika further said, “But I also had to romance a much older actor. It was a very patriarchal situation and place, and for me that was the toughest thing. And then I die in the middle of it. He had to throw me (gestures over his shoulder) and then do action. I was like, 'When am I going to die?'”.

These comments completely hurt Tollywood audience as Legend was one of the biggest hits of his career. On the other hand, people are also commenting that Bollywood heroines accept the heroine roles in Telugu movies to gain fame but are now commenting on the scripts.

A few of them are also stating that Bollywood movies too show the heroines in glamorous avatars and it’s not any new thing for them.

On the whole, this issue is creating a big buzz on social media while some are suggesting the filmmaker’s to avoid taking North heroines in South movies.

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Ravali Hymavati

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