Multilingual Films Quotes

I started with Tamil film, then Hindi. Now, I am also doing a Telugu film. The journey has been wonderful so far.

I am an actress. My first film was a Telugu film, my second film was Bollywood, and third was Indo-Chinese.

Usually they have to deal with a dubbing situation or subtitles, and it takes you out of the experience. That's why we wanted to make something that felt really immersive for Chiniese audience, but it takes a lot of work to make 2 versions of a movie!

I love working in cinema - it can be in any language!

I have done some 104 films across languages, most of which had action.

I have never been someone who chooses a film according to the language. Since I am comfortable with Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam, the scope of the film is all that matters to me.

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

I have the luxury of balancing and juggling films in different languages.

It is usually the setting that decides whether a movie can be made in two languages. If the subject is rooted up North, then I make it in Hindi. But if the subject is common, then I am open to making the movie in multiple languages.

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

I was eight years old when I was offered a film. And before I knew it, I was acting in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu movies.

I've done a host of Tamil and Telugu films, a Bengali one, too.

Since most of our films cater to crossover audiences, I think it's time we make films for multilingual viewers.

When a director from Hindi cinema is looking for an actor from another language, it will be only because he feels the character justifies this and that can only be for a well-written character.

I've acted in Hindi, English, Tamil and Telugu films.

I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.

Hindi film industry makes film for the rest of the world. Tamil films are watched by Malay people. When a film is not bound by a language, why should an actor be?

For an actress, the choices are more if one is open to the idea of doing films in different languages.

I made French films and other films and a lot of Arabic films, but what I like is English for myself.

Even when I had three Hindi films happening at the same time, Tamil and Telugu will always be an important industry considering I started my career there.

I will not leave my South films for a Hindi film. I want to be sincere to my South film makers and commitments. Only if my dates are not clashing with any of my South films will I do Hindi films.

When I have time, I would like to do films in my language but I would also like to star in Bengali and Marathi films too.