In a statement that could both be taken as an observation of an industry he was once part of and also could be seen as yet another salvo on 'Hindi imposition', former actor and Tamil Nadu deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin criticised Hindi films eclipsing other regional language films of North India.
Attending a literary event in Kerala's Kozhikode, Udhayanidhi pointed out that Tamil films generate billions in revenue and other Southern industries like Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada too are lucrative, but the same cannot be said about Marathi, Bhojpuri, Bihari, Haryanvi and Gujarati cinema. He said that Mumbai exclusively generates Hindi cinema, while several regional languages in the North do not even have their own industries.
