For someone who has tasted the flavour of several languages and films made in different regions, the ability to appreciate the beauty of the native cultures and the way the cinema that emerges in those regions mirrors the cultures, would come naturally.  Shriya Saran, who has worked in many industries, and who is now acting under Deepa Mehta, for a film based on Salman Rushdie's 1981 magnum opus, Midnight's Children, knows it better than many others.

She, thus, urges against compartmentalising cinema as South, North, etc.  Espousing the cause of cinema, she says that dividing the films on the basis of regions will do no good.  "I have been associated with film industries.  It is beneficial to know various languages and experience the many cultures.  It broadens the outlook of our life.  I can now understand Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.  Every language has got a style of its own and its own significance.  That shows itself in the films made in those languages", Shriya rationalises.

One must appreciate Shirya's broad view.  Driving home the necessity to appreciate films from other States, she has made a case of films as cultural chronicles in the modern times.