Telugu cinema

What were your biggest fears as you continued to progress in your career? Because through the '90s, you solidified yourself as one of prob...

Uh, the, the biggest hit maker in both Bollywood and Tollywood.

Unintentionally.

[laughs]

That's not the case, say, in India, where they have, we think all Indian m-movies from India are Bollywood.

There's also, uh, Tollywood and there's, there's about seven different ... sort of centers of different filmmaking centers in India.

Very large, uh, country, so makes sense.

In America it's always been centered in Hollywood.

So, I think they went with some mixture of Bollywood and South Indian.

Tollywood.

Yeah.

Collywood.

know.

It's what they call Tollywood.

But the problem with that is to watch it with the original language, it's not available on Netflix, I believe.

So you can only watch it in Hindi or English.

Hindi movies are tend, are Bollywood.

There's Telugu, which they call Tollywood.

There are Tamil films, which is Kollywood.

There's a Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali.

Very less there.

So, so the, these business people, these doctors, they said, "Look, can you, can, can, we love to, uh, enjoy, uh, a Hindi film or a South Indian film, um, Tamil film, Telugu film in the cinema." So I said, "Okay, let me work on it." And that's how it has started, and I brought the first film into Temple Bar, uh, Irish-

IFC

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But listen यार, don't be so conservative.

People of India, including Gen Z, who don't watch this show, if you wanna be a big star, if you wanna be an actor, if you wanna break in Bollywood, maybe Hollywood, Tollywood, all the different woods of India, including whistling woods where you can become a faculty, I have the guy for you.

This is Karan.

Karan, say hi.

And then Department of, uh, of, uh, of, uh, entertainment is opened up.

And you have from Hollywood to Bollywood to Lollywood to Tollywood to every wood, uh, you know, their people are, are imported, and you pay them top dollars to come in and, you know, do concerts.

So don't listen...

Now, the Azans are what? Stopped.