R Madhavan says his son Vedaant’s generation of teenagers don’t watch Hindi films or Tamil films: ‘They’re looking at Korean content, Japanese anime’ | Hindi Movie News

Actor R Madhavan who was last seen in ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’, is now promoting his upcoming film ‘GDN’. During the promotion, the actor has expressed concern that younger audiences, including his 20-year-old son Vedaant’s generation, are increasingly turning away from Indian television and are showing more interest in Japanese and Korean films.Madhavan said that the Indian film industry is not losing viewers to other film companies but to different regions. “I have one fear that I don’t even want to think about.” Indeed, so far, I have earned his respect. Now he is 20 years old. But if you look at my younger generation, they are not against him,” said Madhavan, describing himself in the third person. “It is a big problem. They’re watching Japanese movies, they’re watching Korean movies. But they don’t even want to watch our Tamil movies. They will never go to theaters to watch Hindi movies or Indian movies anymore,” he said in an interview to Cinema Express. The actor admitted that he could have continued doing mainstream films, which he believed would have helped him achieve success. However, he said he wants to explore roles that allow him to show the depth of his skills.He said: “I believe that if I make a commercial film, it will have only one song.Explaining his decision to take on such a challenging role, Madhavan added: “All the experiences I have had in my life, we can’t put them in one film. That’s what happens in acting. But I never got the chance to show the depth and character that acting requires. Then, when such an opportunity came, I decided that just doing a conventional commercial film is not something I can do.”Madhavan also said that the responsibility of making a meaningful and inspiring movie rests with the filmmakers and the actors themselves. “What is happening in Tamil Nadu is happening all over the world. What power do our people have? How do they know? But beyond that, how are we inspired when we come? A journalist, a director, or an artist, how inspiring are we?” he said.His upcoming film ‘GDN’ tells the story of Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, a self-taught industrialist from Coimbatore who is often referred to as India’s Edison. Although he did not have an engineering degree, Naidu developed India’s first electric motor and tried to develop a car similar to Mercedes in pre-independence Tamil Nadu.