India, June 26 -- National Award-winning actor-filmmaker Adinath Kothare has been a renowned name in the Marathi cinema and he has dabbled into Hindi language as well. He will be seen in filmmaker Nitesh Tiwari's magnus opus, Ramayana: Part 1 up next, and he believes it's a great time to be a regional actor in India. "Language is no more a barrier thanks to the digital wave which altered the audience's palette. Regional cinemas are growing bigger and even performing better than certain pan-India work and it's a great sign," he says. Adinath was last seen in the Hindi web series System, and produced and starred in the Marathi web series Detective Dhananjay: Rahasyajal. While he is enjoying catering to the pan-India audience, the actor also admits that there has been an increase in audience for Marathi content lately. He credits a huge part of that to actor-filmmaker Ritiesh Deshmukh and his film Raja Shivaji, which earned over Rs.100 crore in India and became the highest-grossing Marathi film of all time. "It's a great feeling and I am proud of Riteish. It's such a big project and it was a daring move to invest that kind of money in the Marathi industry. It's a huge leap for us and the film's success showed trade what we are capable of doing if the right people are backing and creating content. Riteish has shifted the access to business in the Marathi industry," he says. Adinath says that the content-driven work coming out of the region has also contributed to this growth: "Films like Tighee and Kranti Jyoti Vidyalaya have also crossed over and brought audiences to Marathi films." He feels that his show Detective Dhananjay also benefitted from this shift. "But timing is a coincidence. All you can control is focusing on creating good content, and that's all I do," he ends....