With good movies getting acceptance all over the nation, filmmakers are coming up with the ideas of bilinguals and pan-Indian movies. We have seen a lot of bilingual films in recent times where the makers are filming in two languages at the same time. Telugu heroes like Ram Pothineni and Mahesh Babu filmed ‘The Warriorr’ and ‘Spyder’ in two languages. They acted and dubbed for themselves in both Telugu and Tamil too. We have seen actors like Prabhas, NTR and Ram Charan dubbing for themselves in Tamil as well for their big films.

Sadly, this is not the case with Tamil heroes who are trying to pass dubbing films as bilinguals lately. Siva Karthikeyan gained a good following with movies like ‘Don’ and ‘Doctor’. He promoted ‘Prince’ as a bilingual which will be made in Tamil and Telugu simultaneously. With Anudeep directing this film, people believed that it is true but the trailer made it clear that ‘Prince’ is a Tamil film that will be dubbed and released in Telugu. The movie got an average response and many felt that the dubbing was not good. Anudeep mark comedy was not translated ably in Telugu which led to its lukewarm response.

Even Vijay’s upcoming film ‘Varasudu’ is the same as it was presented as a bilingual before since Vamsi Paidipally is directing it and Dil Raju is producing it. But the hero himself said that it is a Tamil film with a Telugu director. This high-budget movie will be dubbed in Telugu.

While heroes like Karthi and Dhanush are trying to dub for themselves, there are some heroes who are releasing dubbing films and projecting them as bilinguals. It is common for other language heroes to not dub for themselves as they do not have proper command over the Telugu language but deceiving the Telugu audience is not at all appreciable.