K Viswanath's Shankarabharanam, Ram Gopal Varma's Siva, Maniratnam's Geethanjali, Sukumar's Arya and recently Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Arjun Reddy were all
South Indian film industries have always been a key contributor to Bollywood, both in terms of super hit stories and crossover stars like Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan.While the trend of making multi-lingual movies by the southern filmmakers and .
Kamal Haasan went on to play the lead in several movies directed by Balachander. The filmmaker gave Bollywood one of the biggest hits of its times with