He quips that he enjoys looking at doing non-Malayalam (his mother-tongue) films more as there is no pressure to deliver numbers. Yes, Dulquer Salmaan has always designed his career to be a multi-lingual star. In Hindi, he began his career with Karwaan, a lovely film that did not do business as expected, followed by another box-office mismatch, The Zoya Factor.
Source: Dulquer Salmaan traverses multiple language cinema from Sita Ramam to Chup | News India Times