Netflix’s ‘Aap Jaisa Koi’ actor R. Madhavan on Hindi-Marathi language row: ‘I speak Tamil, Hindi and…’

Netflix’s ‘Aap Jaisa Koi’ actor R. Madhavan has commented on the on-going Hindi-Marathi language row and said this to IANS in an interview, “I speak Tamil. I speak Hindi. And I have studied in Kolhapur also. I have learnt Marathi also. So, I have never had any problem because of language. Neither because of knowing it nor because of not knowing it.”

In an exclusive interview with Firstpost, the actor spoke about how much he relates to his character and said, “Touchwood, for what you have just said! I have seen that in my grandparents. They grew up in a very different society. Everybody’s role was cut out and my grandmother was probably fourteen or fifteen when she got married. And my grandfather was probably 21 or 22. That was the norm then and they had babies.”

The actor added, “They lived a life of love for eighty years. In the last four years, I would see my grandfather would literally worry to the core to make sure that my grandmother was okay. He used to keep on asking, ‘has she eaten, has she taken her medicines?

He knew everything about her including her favourite colour. So, the amount of attention and care he used to show at 80, for me that kind of love was absolutely pure. He was so particular, that he wouldn’t eat till she had eaten. I realised that the circumstances under which they would have fallen in love were very different.”