Where is south zone?

Why we don't have a zone from south india? Is it not part of India?

they dont speak hindi so i think they left them out...

they would not have that many people audiotioning, and hindi music and hindi films r not really popular there

Yes, I think they have languages like tamil and telugu there and movies in those languages are more popular so it might be a bit hard for those people... 😳

iam from south india and people living here arenot only telugu/tamil speaking but of all languages...i think they shud have kept south india and their tag line was har akshar ki dhun par khelega india...i think south india is also a part of india....i think its unfair

I was going to start a topic on this too. Why not South India?
A lot of movie stars and singers in Bollywood are from South India. Hema Malini, Sri Devi, Ash, Shilpa Shetty, Sunil Shetty, Vaijayantimala to name a few. Singers - Hariharan, A R Rehman, Kavita Krishnamurthy, S P Balasubramaniam, Chitra - to name a few singers. Even Ram Gopal Verma is from Andhra Pradesh. The top contenders of Indian Idol (forgot his name) and Saregamapa (Hemachandra) were South Indian.

Hindi is our national language. Even though some people in South India may not speak Hindi - a majority of them do.
Yes, South India has four major languages - Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu but a lot of other states also have other native languages. Lot of Bengali's don't speak fluent Hindi.
So, if Antakshari's slogan is - Har Akshar per khalega - India - then they should include all of India.

Originally posted by: jaysp

I was going to start a topic on this too. Why not South India?
A lot of movie stars and singers in Bollywood are from South India. Hema Malini, Sri Devi, Ash, Shilpa Shetty, Sunil Shetty, Vaijayantimala to name a few. Singers - Hariharan, A R Rehman, Kavita Krishnamurthy, S P Balasubramaniam, Chitra - to name a few singers. Even Ram Gopal Verma is from Andhra Pradesh. The top contenders of Indian Idol (forgot his name) and Saregamapa (Hemachandra) were South Indian.

Hindi is our national language. Even though some people in South India may not speak Hindi - a majority of them do.
Yes, South India has four major languages - Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu but a lot of other states also have other native languages. Lot of Bengali's don't speak fluent Hindi.
So, if Antakshari's slogan is - Har Akshar per khalega - India - then they should include all of India.

well said. a lot of my friends (i m from andhra) dont talk the regional language as they are comfortable in hindi.

karuyna 😊 from indian idol and hemacandra from saregamapa, were very good singers and deserved to win, but due to lack of people voting 4 them from their states they lost, and even people that came on as judge guest like TABU said many people in the south india don't really watch tv and mainly watch tamil and other langauge films, and its not because of people don't speak hindi, its just because other things like cinema is just so big there and tv is not really big there, i think that's why thye thought many people would not come for the auditions.

i am from south india too and i want to say that people in hyderabad
(Andhra Pradesh) can speak better hindi than North Indians. Antakshari
people should add south zone also otherwise I think there is no integrity in
India

I say that people in Hyderabad speak only hindi. at least the auto rickshaws drivers :) They refuse to speak in telugu.