Will They Accept Excessive South Flavour?

One of the biggest surprises from Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan is the way director Atlee has cast the leading ladies and other female characters of the movie apart from picking up mostly South Indian technicians. Currently, this overdose of South flavour is worrying the actor’s fans big time regarding the film’s good run in the upper parts of India.

The most surprising thing about Jawan is its actresses, which include Nayantara, Deepika Padukone, Priyamani, Amrita Iyer and quite a long list. Except for Deepika, who hails from the South but is a big star in Bollywood, all other actresses are completely South-centric only.

When the likes of Prabhas are picking up total-north total-Bollywood kind of cast and crew for their movies, Shah Rukh Khan just pole-reversed it by picking up almost all the cast crew from the south. In a way, Jawan looks like a Tamil film that has Shah Rukh Khan in the lead.

As films like Pushpa, Kantara and Baahubail have erased all the boundaries when it comes to north audiences watching movies that have south actors, even Shah Rukh Khan is said to be not worrying about this particular aspect.

He’s confident that the film will anyway do wonders in Hindi hinterlands due to his presence, and due to the previous mega blockbuster Pathaan, but he wants all this south flavour to make the film work in Tamilnadu, Telugu states and Karnataka. Let’s see what happens.