Tamannaah Bhatia says, ‘Credit for action films is still given to male stars’

Versatile actress Tamannah Bhatia has been busy with back-to-back shoots of her films. The actress recently opened up that she couldn’t leverage the huge success of Baahubali: The Beginning (2015) as much as she should’ve. She adds that since she wasn’t as evolved a person to make sense of the the massive success.

Tamannaah said in an interview with Film Companion, “I feel like in action films, still the credit is always given to the male counterparts. I think it’s fair that what the film did for Prabhas and Rana (Daggubati) is different from what it did for me, because the amount of the part I had was also like that.” She revealed that the kind of feedback she still gets for that film is ‘unreal.’.

Coming back to Baahubali: The Beginning, Tamanaah played Avantika, a skilled combatant opposite Amarendra Baahubali, played by the leading man, Prabhas. It is a period war film directed by SS Rajamouli, it became the second highest grossing Indian film, only behind its sequel Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, that released a couple of years later.