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Nagarjuna says he’s nonetheless referred to as ‘South ka actor’ when he enters eating places or airports in Delhi, Mumbai: ‘Pleased with my roots’

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Nagarjuna joked that regardless of showing in motion pictures throughout a number of Indian languages, he’s nonetheless referred to as ‘south actor’ within the press. He stated that it doesn’t matter what bracket other people put him in, he’s pleased with his roots.

Nagarjuna, who works predominantly within the Telugu movie business, has additionally starred in Tamil and Hindi motion pictures. In an interview with Bollywood Bubble, he stated that he nonetheless faces the discrimination to these days, however is unbothered. “Even now, every time I stroll in a cafe someplace in Delhi or Mumbai, they are saying, ‘South ka actor hai’. They are saying that, on the airports, CISF guys. I stay listening to that,” he stated.

His son, Naga Chaitanya, stated in the similar interview that like his father, he’s pleased with his roots, and credited era with having bridged the divide. “It’s great that this entire south Indian north Indian divide is getting diluted. It’s all the time been the case. We’re all human beings and all of us hook up with the similar emotion. It’s just right that motion pictures also are being noticed in that method now,” he stated.

The daddy-son duo starred in combination in Bangarraju, which launched to adverse important reception however large field place of work returns closing week. The Indian Specific overview referred to as it a ‘sorry excuse of a film’, awarding it one-and-a-half stars out of 5. The movie made a reported Rs 53 crore in its opening weekend, at the same time as a number of states around the nation implement new restrictions in gentle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bangarraju is the sequel to the movie Soggade Chinni Nayana and is the second one collaboration between Nagarjuna and Naga Chaitanya, after Manam, which additionally featured the past due ANR, Nagarjuna’s father and Chaitanya’s grandfather. Nagarjuna will quickly be noticed in Ayan Mukerji’s myth epic Brahmastra.