Raveena Tandon feels Bollywood has lot to learn from South cinema | Exclusive

In an exclusive interview with IndiaToday.in, Bollywood actress Raveena Tandon said the Hindi film industry needs to learn a lot from South cinema. Find out why.

Bollywood actress Raveena Tandon is currently riding high on the success of her web series, Aranyak. The actress made her OTT debut with Aranyak and she is being lauded for her character Kasturi in the series. In an exclusive interview with IndiaToday.in, Raveena spoke about her character in Aranyak, Bollywood vs South cinema debate and her career in general.

During the interview, the actress was asked if she feels Bollywood is getting tough competition from the South film industry, considering the recent success of Pushpa.

In response to this, Raveena said, "The Hindi film industry, of course, sometimes has a lot to learn from the South film industry. It is because the South strongly believes in content. But now, I see things are changing. I could say that probably 10 years ago, but now, definitely not. Now, everyone is equal and everyone is at par. If there are great films coming from the South film industry and other regional industries, there is great content coming from the Hindi film industry as well. So now, there has been a certain kind of wake-up that it is not about a certain formula that works. It is great content that works, which I think works for all industries."

Raveena, talking about Aranyak, shed light on how well she could connect with her character Kasturi on the web show. Raveena added, "There was a lot of Kasturi that I could relate to. I think that is why she touched my heart when I said yes to this project. There are so many women out there, who face this dilemma all the time - getting divided between their family life, home, their in-laws, looking after their husbands and being there for them emotionally and physically, while giving their 100 per cent to their work, which is their dream job."

Raveena also spoke about the idea that women can't be everywhere. She revealed that the women she spoke to always had this dilemma and a few of them even decided to give up on their careers for their kids and family.