This is how Britishers divided us: Akshay Kumar on north vs south cinema debate

The failure of Hindi films and the pan-India success of South Indian films sparked a debate on languages recently. The issue was triggered after Sandalwood star Kichcha Sudeep said that Hindi is not the national language, which led to Ajay Devgn commenting on the matter. Now, superstar Akshay Kumar has given his two cents on the debate. The actor said that he does not like when someone names the film industries as south and north industries. He added that the British divided and ruled us but we have not learnt any lesson from that. 

Akshay is gearing for the release of Prithviraj that also features Manushi Chillar, Sonu Sood and Sanjay Dutt. 

As per reports, Akshay was responding to a question on language divide when he said, “I don’t believe in this divide. I hate it when somebody says south industry or north industry. We are all a common industry. I think we should stop asking this question. It is important that we understand that this is how the Britishers came and divided us, they invaded us and ruled us. We don’t seem to have learnt our lesson. The day we understand that we are all one industry, I think things will start working much better.”

"I don't understand the term 'pan-India’. All I want is all the films to work, and that’s about it," he added. Akshay's Prithviraj, directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi, will release in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu on June 3. It is based on the life of warrior king Prithviraj Chauhan.