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Originally posted by: NoComments

Regional stereotypes remain and exist for every region, not just south. Just like South Indian characters are shown with a particular dressing style, accent, and lingo in our movies and serials, so are many other characters - I have seen Bengali characters being projected as being completely unreal, weird dressing, dialect and what not! Almost making a mockery of the culture. It is very hard to digest that for anyone from that region who knows how things are on the ground.

Also - another observation that I have is that just like many north Indians attribute anything south to Chennai or madras to be more precise, for many south Indians, everything above Hyderabad is north India. It is not. We can never attribute a Mumbai or a Bhopal or a Kolkata or Guwahati as North India - No!

As for not holding auditions in specific cities - I think its more of a chicken and egg situation. The channels are very much driven by TRPs leading to their advertising funds, and voting funds in case of reality shows and a lot of centers get eliminated based on that.

Originally posted by: DiehardYMfan

well I m talking about chennai...until recently I have toured TN thrice but never ever have I found more than half a dozen tamil or not even that much willing to speak in english even not to forget their particular distaste for Hindi...however that is not the case when I was out on a schedule in Bellary..even the local ppl who were hired tried to speak in Hindi and make us feel comfortable...

in Kerala it was always fab with ppl speaking fluently in english! in AP also things were nice with the exception of TN...

Originally posted by: music_masti

but 2 years back travelled to almost all major temples and tourism spots in tamilnadu..we found english speaking guides...yes they have an accent...but they wer so helpful and speaking only in english.