Vijay Devarakonda dissects why Brad Pitt earns more

Rowdy Star Vijay Devarakonda, speaking at WAVES 2025, dissected why Brad Pitt earns more than him or any other star in India and shared his views on Hollywood vs Indian Cinema.

He said  “As an actor, a lot of times I’ve been very angry. I don’t know how to say this, I hope this does not get me into trouble, but I feel we need to expand our kingdom. That all of us are conversing in English is a big soft power win for the West because they came in hundreds of years ago and made sure all of us were speaking and writing in their language. Now it’s too late to backtrack,”

He continued  “Because some buggers did this 200-300 years ago for whatever purpose, now Hollywood has the biggest budgets and directors because all of us know and watch films in English. If I do a film and Brad Pitt does a film, he will get paid 100x more than I just because more people are watching his language. Which is not my fault, but the fault of some guys who went and spread that language.”

He added “I feel if our ancestors were more proactive and made the world speak in Hindi or Telugu, we would all be…I have a bit of a grouse. Cinema is one thing that keeps us close to our language.”