There
was a time when Bollywood was obsessed with South Indian actresses. From the
50’s to the 80’s several actresses from South India like Vyjayanthimala, Hema
Malini, Rekha, Sridevi, Jaya Prada etc. dominated Bollywood.
However
now it seems South Indian film industry has been obsessed by Bollywood actors
to play the villain. Recently Khiladi Kumar aka Akshay Kumar has been signed
opposite Rajinikanth to play the main villain in the sequel to ENDHIRAN 2 and
now the news is that another Bollywood top star Vivek Oberoi has been signed to
play the antagonist opposite Chiranjeevi in the remake of Tamil hit KATHTHI
It
is not that South Indian Cinema is importing Bollywood villains for the first
time the only difference is that for the first time South Indian cinema has
dared to sign top Bollywood stars and vouched out whopping amount.
If
insiders are to be believed filmmaker Shanker has signed Akshay Kumar for an
enormous amount of Rs 25 crore!!! Likewise Vivek Oberoi, who played the
menacing villain in Hrithik Roshan’s hit film KRRISH 3 is likely to demand a
massive amount.
A
look down history reveals that it was South Indian movie maverick Mani Ratnam,
who started the trend of importing Bollywood villains in South cinema. He
firmly believed that the film’s anatomist must have multiple dimensions hence
for the first time he hired Bollywood’s top notch villain Amrish Puri for his
post-modern Mahabharata, DALAPATHY (1991)and later signed Pankaj Kapur for ROJA
(1993).
What
followed next was a crop of Bollywood villains invading South cinema like
Mukesh Rishi, Pradeep Rawat, Sonu Sood, Rahul Dev etc minting money.
Following
is the list of Top 10 Bollwood actors as villains in South Indian Cinema
Manoj
Bajpayee in Telugu film VEDAM.
Ashish
Vidyarthi: POKIRI (Telugu)
Pradeep
Rawat: GHAJINI (Tamil)
Mukesh
Rishi: INDRA (Telugu)
Mukesh
Tiwari: KANTHASWAMY (Tamil)
Sayaji
Shinde: DHOOL (Tamil,Telugu,Kannada)
Atul
Kulkarni: RUN (Tamil)
Sonu
Sood: ATHADU (Telugu)
Murali
Sharma: ATITHI (Telugu)
Salim
Ghouse: THAZHVARAM (Malayalam)
