From left: Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar, with actors Kareena Kapoor Khan and Vijay Devarkonda, during the session ‘Cinema: The Soft Power’, World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (Waves) 2025 on Friday (May 2, 2025) in Mumbai 2025. , Photo Credit: PTI
“This is very formal and serious,” Vijay Devarakonda said that he joined Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor Khan for a session at the World Audio Visual and Entertainment (Waves) Summit, currently going on at the Jio Convention Center in BKC, Mumbai. The pre-launch season was hosted by filmmaker-producer Karan Johar.
The conversation ranging from India’s soft power to Kareena’s girl-Shakti’s famous science power, ‘Main is your favorite Hoon!’ Kareena’s films, such as Kabi khushi kabi gum And 3 IdiotsWidely traveled, not only the Indian migrants but appealed to the world on a large scale.
“Many moon first, I was eating in a restaurant and Steven Spielberg came to me and asked,” Are you a girl in that famous Indian film about three students? ” Kareena shared. When we met“This embodied the spirit of the young Indian girl. My character, the Gita, in her eyes was the spark and dream that every Indian girl does. It will definitely join everyone in the world.”
Victory, suddenly turned into formal and severely, slammed Western imperialism to establish a suzerainty of the English language.
“I hope it does not make me in trouble,” Arjun Reddy Star started, “but I think we need to expand our kingdom. We are all interacting in English, a very soft power victory for the West because they came hundreds of years ago and ensured that we were all speaking and writing in our language. Now it’s too late.”
The Telugu star continued in an animated vein, “Because whatever purpose was done by some bugras for the purpose, now Hollywood has the biggest budget because we all know and watch films in English and watch. If I do a film and Brad Pit does a film, it will be paid 100X more only because more people watch some people.
Indian languages, they feel, have lagged behind in the global cultural race.
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“If our ancestors were more active and took measures to speak the world to Hindi or Telugu, we all would be better. I have a little part against our ancestors, but I am liked, okay, what we do now? Cinema is a medium that keeps us close to our language. We need to encourage it.”
Published – May 02, 2025 02:40 pm IST
