Quotes About Tamil

The Tamil industry has a huge market and already has many talented actors. So, making a mark in Kollywood is not easy. I will have to choose the right script and do it the right way.

For me, Malayalam films remain the most important. I don't want to do more Tamil films just for the sake of it.

The overwhelming love Tamil audiences gave 'Premam' will always remain special.

I owe my career in the South to Tamil films.

I've learnt music, since this is a part and parcel of growing up in a traditional Tamil Brahmin family. In fact, I've even given three exams in music when I was young.

I am required to shoot for 'Jaiyam' only for five days in a month. Being able to speak Tamil fluently, I complete 25 episodes each time I visit Chennai.

The first time I visited Chennai was in 2013, July, I think. I came here to meet the director of my first Tamil film, Pa Ranjith for 'Madras.' We did a test shoot and I left the same evening. I didn't get to explore the city much at that time.

I am an actor and I don't have any language barrier. If I get a Tamil film, I will learn the language. It's not a problem.

Justice M.C. Jain's interim report29 suggested that the DMK and its leadership had been involved in encouraging Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and his followers.

the Sangam Tamil corpus is essentially a literature of diverse landscapes and a plural demography. Sangam texts stand witness to the plural social systems, polity, cultural ethos and ideology of the early Tamils. At the same time, they also represent some of the 'carried forward' memories that probably emulate the ideologies of the IVC [Indus Valley Civilization], including its inherent pluralism.

Interestingly, my role in the Tamil and Telegu version of 'Dabaang' is that of a boxer.

I'm interested to branch out to Tamil because I know the language. If Bollywood happens, it will be a bonus, but I'm not working towards a career in it.

I don't mind acting in Hindi films, but the script has to suit me. It has to be a boy-next-door role because that's the image I have in Tamil cinema.

The Tamil film '3' is a movie that I will always be proud of, irrespective of whether it did well at the BO or not. It completely changed my career and people's perspective of me as a performer.

Malaysian Tamil movies are amateurish, with songs picked up from our old Tamil movies and inserted in between.

My mother and grandmother are very supportive of me, and they always have a say in things. They also really help with any pronunciation problems I have with Tamil and Malayalam, and can always identify if there is a mistake and correct it.

The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.

modern spoken Tamil is astonishingly rich in Sanskrit loan words. Indeed, there may well be more straight Sanskrit in Tamil than in the Sanskrit-derived north Indian vernaculars.

When I entered the industry, I wanted to work with good directors like Mani Ratnam and Gautam Menon; that's why I did Tamil films. I realised later that I was not adding anything to the Tamil scripts and that it was a waste of time for me.

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

I can communicate what I want to in Tamil, but I can't express myself in the language very well.

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

In Tamil, the actors have to take care of themselves quite well and that is something I am all set to be serious about.

The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".