Agree with Maddy. Its a combination of cultural differences, widespread stereotypes and even difference in cinema and film industries. Also agree with the person who brought up Bengalis in Bollywood - apart from core Hindi speakers and punjabi people not many other men can wiggle into Bollywood.
My take is though, why should they? Industries rise and fall, and the world too is quickly becoming informed that BW is not the ony industry in India. Apart from the bigger budget and the glamour quotient I don't see Bollywood as being cinematically more favorable or exciting.
Fun fact : rajnikanth is a northie, born into a Marathi family. Intriguing that he became the face of tamil nadu and Tamil cinema.
Edited to add this after reading several comments on how Marathi does not equal north Indian :
Sorry if I seemed confused or misspoke, but I didn't mean Fully geographically, I meant marathi = Maharashtra =where bollywood originates from. And Bollywood being Hindi language films are traditionally considered north Indian cinema.
Perhaps it is a generalization on my part but I was merely splitting India by north and south - so anything above the 4 southern states I referred to as north. I understand Maharashtra is more on the lines of central west India. And in regards to rajnikanth, south Indians definitely would consider Marathi speaking people to be north Indians
Edited by masakaliii - 13 years ago
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