Gulshan Devaiah says Bollywood is far more ‘democratic’ than South industry

Actor Gulshan Devaiah, who is best known for films like ‘Badhaai Do’, ‘Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota’, and ‘Shaitan’, recently said that Bollywood is ‘far more democratic’ in comparison to the South industry. He said that most popular South actors have filmy background but that’s not necessarily the case in Bollywood.

‘If you look at the industry in the South, it is making so many waves. You can name all the actors who are really popular and all of them come from families. Everybody has their third and fourth generation working. But the Hindi film industry is far more democratic people like me, Vijay Varma, Soham (Shah), Mrunal Thakur, we are all working and doing well and making a living out of this,’ he told Hindustan Times.

The actor added that it is ‘just human nature to blame everything for your misfortune’ and it was a ‘really stupid argument that talented people should get the job’ as a business enterprise has to take into account many other factors before they finalise an actor.
He said, ‘It’s like this whole negativity around things. Of course there are power structures, they have power and they do whatever they want but it’s really not some battle or it’s not like all darkness’.

Earlier, ‘Major’ actor Adivi Sesh had also spoken about nepotism in Telugu cinema and how it led him to write his own movies.

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