In just 5 days, the box-office collections of ‘Baahubali: The Conclusion’ has crossed more than Rs 500 crore globally. The much-anticipated movie kept up to its expectations and blew everyone’s minds. This Telugu movie made huge impacts in all the languages it was dubbed in (Tamil, Hindi, and Malayalam). In spite of Bahubali 2’s great achievements, certain TV anchors have tried to bring down the success of the movie.

 The fact that a Telugu filmmaker could pull off a feat of creating a Rs 450 crore worth blockbuster which according to some, should have ideally been done by Bollywood is causing annoyance amongst a certain few. It was extremely exasperating to hear one channel anchor state that ‘Baahubali 2’ is a Tamil film dubbed into Telugu and Hindi. The sheer ignorance put on display here by the Indian cinema in disregarding the latent talents of the south is sad.

 In taking into account the history of Indian cinema, it can be seen that Chennai, or Madras in those days, was the heart of South Indian cinema. Since the early times, Chennai has been a home to several studios like AVM, Vijayvahini, and Gemini and made sure to use the latest technologies from 70mm to Dolby. While Madras was the National Film City which also made Tamil films, Mumbai has only been a Hindi center with no other language diversities, except Marathi.