Rahul Dev is a popular Indian actor and former model who predominantly works in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam language films. The actor recently impressed the audience with his role in Punjabi film Warning 2. Rahul Dev , who has been a part of several Bollywood and South hits like Okkadunnadu, Mass, Indian, Champion and more, in an exclusive interview with DNA, talked about the recent underperformance of Bollywood films at the box office in comparison to south films and explained the reason behind the same.
He also opened up on being typecast as villain in the film industry. When asked about his views on south cinema performing better at the box office than Bollywood films, Rahul Dev cited a comparison with Bollywood's performance last year and said, "If we see, in 2023, Shah Rukh Khan had three back to back hits with Jawan, Pathaan and Dunki and that too after a long time. Sunny Deol's Gadar 2 was a major success and there were other films too that worked very well at the box office.
The only difference is the audience. The audience in south is very loyal. " He further added, "In Tamil, Telugu cinema, release of films are celebrated like festivals.
Vahan par leading actors ki film Diwali ki tarah hoti hai (Over there, leading actors' films are celebrated like Diwali). Everything stops for them and people rush to theatres to watch their films." Rahul Dev is popularly known for playing antagonist in the film and giving the heroes a tough fight which makes a film.
