South cinema needs its villains from Hindi cinema: Bobby Deol on ‘Jana Nayagan’

South Indian cinema runs on heroism. The hero isn’t just the lead actor; he’s the centre of the universe and the movie unravels round him. He’s worshipped on display screen and off it too. And for that celebration to land, the villain needs to be sufficiently big to make the hero’s victory really feel earned. That, in accordance with Bobby Deol, is why Hindi actors maintain getting solid as antagonists in Tamil and Telugu movies.

“It’s a special world on the market, within the sense that they’ve quite a lot of heroism. They worship the heroes. So, they at all times need their villains to be from Hindi cinema,” Bobby Deol mentioned in an interview with ‘Galatta Plus’.

It’s a sample the trade has adopted for many years. From Bollywood actors being solid as antagonists in Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan movies within the Nineties to the present wave the place Bobby Deol, Sanjay Dutt and Sonu Sood routinely play the villain reverse South Indian leads, the logic is similar. A Hindi actor because the villain provides the hero a pan-Indian opponent to beat. It makes the viewers really feel just like the hero isn’t just preventing a neighborhood risk however taking up somebody from the bigger, extra seen Hindi movie trade. Whether or not that’s honest to the Hindi actors concerned is a special query. But it surely works on the field workplace and that’s the reason it retains taking place.

Bobby Deol has change into essentially the most in-demand model of this method within the final three years. After his career-reviving flip in Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s ‘Animal’ in 2023, the gives from the South haven’t stopped. He performed the villain in Suriya’s ‘Kanguva’. After that, he confronted off towards Balakrishna in ‘Daaku Maharaaj’. He was Aurangzeb reverse Pawan Kalyan in ‘Hari Hara Veera Mallu’. And now, he has arrived because the antagonist in Vijay’s ‘Jana Nayagan’, essentially the most anticipated Tamil launch of the yr and the sitting Chief Minister’s remaining movie.

“It’s an odd reality, however most of them obtained into politics they usually labored with me earlier than they received the elections,” he mentioned, laughing.