India, July 21 -- Actor Kajal Aggarwal has spent nearly two decades balancing careers in both the South Indian and Hindi film industries. In a recent chat with Shubhankar Mishra, she reflected on why she chose to prioritise South cinema over Bollywood, pointed out what the Hindi film industry could learn from the South, and even recalled the longest she has ever had to wait on set was for Salman Khan.

Kajal revealed that she didn't do many Bollywood films because the quality of projects she was being offered in the South was far better than what she was getting in Hindi cinema. She said that the kind of roles she wanted were available to her in the South in abundance, and therefore she didn't want to take up average roles in Bollywood. ...