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Yes,but its nowhere closer to Dravidian also..may be due to its geographical location and early Sanskritization...
If thats the case,More Sanskritized Dravidian language is Malayalam..High literature Malayalam has around 80% loan words from Sanskrit...But still for every Sanskrit derivative we have original Dravidian usage..Thats why a Malayalam speaker could easily learn and understand Tamil/Sanskrit without much difficultly...
If you have known Sanskrit, you wouldn't have said so. There are loads of Sanskrit loanwords in Telugu and also Kannada, but they are still the Dravidian languages very different from Northern languages because of the Dravidian structure. Every North Indian language is very close to each other, Punjabi is closest to Hindi, if you know Hindi, you can understand 70-75% of Punjabi.