In Major Ravi's 2010 film "Kandahar," which stars the malayalam superstar mohanlal, Bachchan appeared beside him onscreen. However, the movie did poorly at the box office. Shreekumar Menon, who directed the mohanlal film "Odiyan" and collaborated with Bachchan on some commercials, spoke for many in the business when he said: "Amitabh Bachchan is a dynamic actor who never turns down a challenging role. He has always been a director's actor, so working with him is a learning process."
With the 2014 film "Manam," the bollywood actor made his telugu film debut. The film featured three generations of the Akkineni clan, from akkineni nageswara rao to his son nagarjuna and grandson naga Chaithanya. S. Ramanathan, a director of the hindi remake of the kannada film "Shankar Guru," and Waheed Rehman, praveen Babi, and zeenat aman were two other South indian film industry figures who collaborated with Bachchan. And S.S. Balan was the director of Bachchan's performance in gemini Studios' "Sanjog" (1971). It was a remake of the tamil film "Iru Kodugai" by K. Balachander.