Pooja Hegde reacts to ‘Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan’ being called a 'South movie'

Actor Pooja Hegde is gearing up for the release of her forthcoming film ‘Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan’ opposite Salman Khan. In a recent interview with Hindustan Times, she opened up about the expectations from the masala entertainer. Pooja shared that she’s ‘excited and nervous’, and she hopes that people like her character.
Pooja said, ‘I am actually playing an archaeologist. We wanted to basically play with my ‘bhai’ dialogue because she doesn’t know how to address Salman. Everybody calls him bhai.’
Describing how it was working with Salman Khan, she said, ‘He is called bhaijaan. It's been great working with him. He is so real and honest, He says whatever he has on his mind, and that's something I like. He is transparent about his thoughts. He helped me while working on the film and vice versa.’
A section of netizens has compared ‘Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan’ to South Indian films. Reacting to the same, Pooja said, ‘Our film is related to South (India). I am a Telugu in the film. It’s good that Indian cinema is now coming together as one. It’s required to be so because in the film a girl from Hyderabad comes to Delhi. She is introduced to a new place, two different worlds you’ll see.’
‘Because the girl is Telugu we have also shown Bathukamma in the film. It’s a Telugu festival. There they are singing in Telugu because it would have been weird to show it in Hindi. So, what is authentic to the script is done,’ she added.
‘Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan’ is releasing on the occasion of Eid 2023, on April 21.
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