South Indian Culture Quotes

While families in South India are familiar with Soundaryalahari, I wanted others to know of it, too.

True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Telugu actor.

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

In South India, the audience is more traditional than the Bollywood cine-goers.

I'm very loyal to my south fans and the industry there. So, it's hard for me leave all the love, respect, and admiration and shift base here. I'm a Mumbai girl and have lived here for most of my life. At the same time, I've spent 10 years of my life in the South and feel like a south Indian at heart.

I think of the Tamil poet Subrahmanya Bharati every day, and he is an inspiration in my musical creations.

I know it's a craze in Bollywood to have six-pack abs, but here, it's not the abs or the biceps that make us feel or look macho. Down south, the moustache still works for us!

I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'

I started assisting music composers at 15 in an attempt to run away from studies. But my mom, hailing from a traditional, academically inclined south Indian family influence, made me complete my degree.

I wish to contribute more to south Indian music, especially Tamil music.

Just as the cultures, lifestyle and food differ vastly from our own, music for the Tamil/Telugu audience is vastly different from that of Mollywood.

Hyderabad is a truly pan-Telugu metropolis that has come to accept the mix of Telangana's dakhni culture and the coastal region's Andhra culture.

I am from a south Indian Tamilian family, so all my cousins are into academics and I alone was in sports.

Though I am a Malayalee, I enjoy the Tamil dialogues penned by Karunanidhi.

When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation.