Actor Nithya Menen hopes people embrace cinema from different regions without being “fundamentalist” as she believes being able to speak a new language is an achievement. Speaking in a recent interview, Menen said her fans often ask her to star in a movie in their language.
“Every time you seek the comments, they’ll say when are you doing the film in this or that language? I feel, if you like me, just watch it. There is something fundamentalist about language, like our culture, etc. I wish people didn’t feel like that.” The actor has worked in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi films.
“When they ask me how do you learn languages so easily, I saw it’s because I am so open to it and I love it. What would be better than learning a new language and being able to speak it well? That’s an achievement. I wish people could see like that too,” Menen said.
On the work front, she will be seen next in ‘Modern Love Hyderabad’, the Telugu version of Prime Video’s anthology series. She will feature alongside Revathy in one of the six shorts titled ‘My Unlikely Pandemic Dream Partner’. The veteran actress credited OTT viewers for breaking the language barrier through diverse stories, adding most of the content is “dubbed or at least captioned” these days.
“Everybody will start watching it now. You watch Korean, Spanish, or Assamese (films or series), it’s wonderful. Especially during the pandemic to the lack of entertainment, people wanted to watch a lot of things. So people have opened (up). I feel the next generation (of viewers) will change this field towards languages. India is more beautiful because of its differences. I love this bunch of things that we are,” she said.
