Caste drives everything in our film industry

Director Chaitanya KM, of Aatagara fame, is known to be vocal. One look at his social-media page, and you will see that the filmmaker voices his opinions, no holds barred, on many topics. And this has won him many followers, who have often applauded his views.
Recently, the director posted a message on his Facebook page, in which he spoke about the rampant casteism in the Kannada film industry.This is what he had to say:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I might be fully wrong in saying this, but we are a film industry, where caste, more than professional work, drives everything.</p>&mdash; Chaitanya K. M. (@kmchaitanya) <a href="https://twitter.com/kmchaitanya/status/807265930577399808">December 9, 2016</a></blockquote>
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