Actor R Madhavan, who was last seen in “Durandhar: Revenge”, is now promoting his upcoming film “GDN”. During promotions, the actor expressed concern that younger audiences, including his 20-year-old son Vedaant, are increasingly disconnected from Indian cinema and showing greater interest in Japanese anime and Korean content.Madhavan said the Indian film industry is losing audiences not to another film industry but to a completely different narrative environment. “I have a fear that I don’t even want to think about. Of course, I’ve earned his respect so far. Now he’s 20 years old. But if you look at my younger generation, they are completely out of touch with him,” Madhavan said, referring to himself in the third person. “This is a big problem. They’re watching Japanese anime, they’re watching Korean content. But they don’t even want to watch our Tamil films. They also don’t go to theaters to watch Hindi films or Indian films,” he told Cinema Express in an interview. The actor admitted that he could easily continue making traditional commercial films, which he believed would guarantee a certain level of success. However, he said he wanted to explore roles that would allow him to show the depth of his skills.“I believe that if I make a commercial film, it will definitely create at least a sensation. Just having this formula is enough to keep us going for many years,” he said.Explaining his choice to take on more challenging projects, Madhavan added, “With all the experiences I’ve had in my life, we couldn’t really fit them into a film. That’s what acting is about. But I never got the chance to really showcase the depth and quality that acting requires.” Then, when the opportunity finally came, I decided that just making ordinary commercial films was not something I could do. “Madhavan also said that the responsibility of creating meaningful and inspiring films lies with the filmmakers and performers themselves. “What is happening in Tamil Nadu is happening around the world. How powerful are our people? How aware are they? But beyond that, how inspiring are we when we come forward? How inspiring are we as a storyteller, director or actor?” he said.His upcoming film GDN tells the story of Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, a self-taught inventor and industrialist from Coimbatore who is often called the Edison of India. Despite having no formal engineering education, Naidu developed India’s first electric motor and attempted to build a car to rival Mercedes Benz in the pre-independence state of Tamil Nadu.
