Actor-writer Raj Saluja, when asked about the rise of pan-India movies and if Bollywood is going wrong somewhere, said, "It's...audience that decides whom to accept and whom not to accept." "If you put, Shah Rukh in KGF, they'll not accept...[he] can do this. But if Yash is doing it, you're accepting...Why? Because...audience is...accepting...South actors can do...any damn thing," he added.