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New Delhi, May 22 (PTI) As someone who joined films to become a Mani Ratnam heroine, Aditi Rao Hydari says tags such as "south actor" and "regional cinema" need to be done away with to make the Indian film industry a "more inclusive" place.
Commenting on how the films from the south are enjoying path-breaking success irrespective of language and also challenging the dominance of Hindi cinema, Aditi said the popularity of movies from the region should instead encourage filmmakers up north to re-evaluate.
"It is not fair that they are doing well and suddenly we are like "okay this is also us".
We need to be more inclusive.
We should have done it earlier.
Rather than saying why we are not doing that, we need to understand that "that we" is also us.
It is all one.
So, it is not us versus them.