You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.
It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.
I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says 'less' when they should have said 'fewer.' But my 'poor' sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my 'grass' rhymes with mass, not farce. What's wrong with that?
I still have that South Indian accent. But I am working on it. Hindi audiences should feel that I am speaking like them and should relate to me.
I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.
I love the Midwest accent.
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.