MUMBAI:  Aahana Kumra has impressed everyone with her performances in various movies and web series. Last year, she was seen in movies and web series like India Lockdown, Salaam Venky, Call My Agent: Bollywood, and Avrodh Season 2.

During an interaction with TellyChakkar, Aahana opened up about the growth of OTT, and also shared her experience of working in the South film industry.

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Aahana said, “Even as actors, our viewing patterns have changed. I don’t think I want to go to the theatres and watch anything mediocre. If I am going to the theatre as an audience; I am going along with my family and giving Rs. 500 per person and also buying the popcorn of Rs. 1000, so I want that to be justified. Unless you are making good content, I will not go to a theatre and watch it, even if it is the biggest star of this country. If I feel like this as a person in the fraternity, I totally understand how the audience feels.”

“You won’t believe it, so many people tell me (like my parents’ friends, who watch my work) that they have watched my show. So, then I ask them ‘why didn’t you watch this film?’, and they say that ‘it will come on OTT after one month’. This has become a very regular thought process. You can’t offer me what you were giving me 10 years ago. Our style of living changes, our eating pattern changes; so then why can’t our viewing pattern change,” she added.

Aahana also opened up about why South films are getting a better response, and also spoke about her experience of working in the industry.

She said, “The conversation about South films comes up every time, because I really feel that they are telling stories of the soil and are not propaganda films, and they are not showing films that have been shown to us 10 years ago. They are telling stories which are true to the soil, and they show real things. I mean there are unrealistic things as well.”

“Over there, if the actors have pimples, it will be seen in the film. If it's bad skin, it is like that. I recently worked with Ravi Varman, and he is an incredible cinematographer. In the film, I was the only character who had to wear makeup, and on the first day, he said ‘remove her makeup right now’. My makeup artist was flustered, ‘woh bichara baithke makeup nikal raha tha’. He (Ravi) did that because he wanted to see the real skin; he said ‘her skin is fine, why do you have to put makeup on’. The way the technicians look at you as a character in the South is very different,” she added.

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