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Lauding the professionalism and work culture of South Indian cinema, popular Hindi cinema star Anil Kapoor has said his professional foundation was laid in the South Indian film industry.

Lauding the professionalism and work culture of South Indian cinema, popular Hindi cinema star Anil Kapoor has said his professional foundation was laid in the South Indian film industry.

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In his address at the annual Gollapudi Srinivas National Awards, presented to filmmaker Amit Rai for his film Road to Sangam, Kapoor said, “Professionalism and the work culture of South Indian cinema laid my professional foundation... even my family calls me a Southee.”

Saying he had worked in all three south Indian languages — Telugu , Kannada and Malayalam, he rued that he was yet to be cast in a Tamil film.