‘Allu Arjun said what’s wrong with Bollywood is that they have forgotten how to make heroes’: Nikkhil Advani

Nikkhil was talking about the heroic presentation of protagonists in south films and said, “Everyone thinks about south cinema being mythology and everything, but they take the core emotion. Like water irrigation, let’s make a film about it and now they have packaged that with incredible action, incredible moments of heroism.” Nikkhil then spoke about the heroism of Amitabh Bachchan in films like Kaalia and Coolie. He then said that even Shah Rukh’s character in Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa had more “heroism” than most heroes today.

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Allu Arjun, in an earlier interview, had spoken about how actors across different industries are like “brothers” and said that he has always “looked up to Bollywood, and we have a huge respect for them.” “Just because they had a small bad phase, it is very unfair for us to put Bollywood in a bad light,” he said and added, “They’ve given great cinema for 6-7 decades. There is a lot of Bollywood’s influence on south cinema, and south cinema’s influence on Bollywood as well. At the end of the day, we all are like brothers, who have mutual respect for each other from the different land.”