India, Aug. 25 -- Actor Sri Gouri Priya recently starred in the Telugu film Chennai Love Story alongside Kiran Abbavaram and received praise for her performance. She's no stranger to Tamil cinema either, as the 2024 film Lover made her a household name. "As a child, I was too young to understand the difference between Telugu and Tamil films as many dubbed films would release here," the Secunderabadi native tells Hindustan Times, adding, "A lot of my childhood favourite films are Tamil dub."

Gouri says that learning Tamil as a Telugu girl was initially quite difficult. "When I was younger, I would sing a lot of Telugu songs that were actually dubbed from Tamil. Later, I used to listen to them in the original language to understand the mea...