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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

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

I knew that all South Indian language films were first made in Chennai and that Tamil Nadu is one of the biggest film-producing centres in the country. I wanted to be part of films here.

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

Hindi is far easier a language to pick up than Tamil.

My mother is a Telugu, so I have been familiar with the language since childhood.

When I did my first film, I did not understand or speak Telugu.

My Hindi is OK. I think I am better with Tamil. I remember the Tamil words.