No one can deny the fact that a lot of people around the world are used to watch the original movies dubbed in their own language. I am sure you must have done so too. Do you remember that Sunday when you were just bored at home and had nothing to do? You put the TV on and decided to watch a beautiful English movie dubbed in Hindi which you are too good to watch because you are a true connoisseur of cinema.
Come on, you can’t deny having watched at least one beautiful English movie ripped to shreds in Hindi just for the fun of it. I remember myself watching the dubbed version of 'Avengers - Age of Ultron' and laughing out loud throughout the entire movie. But, at the same moment, I got interrogated by the question that why is it always fun to watch a Hindi dubbed movie? I’m not saying that all movies are dubbed badly but in my experience, most of them are and when this happens, a lot of people actually believe that load of shit is displayed as it is in the original movie also.
Films, I believe, are the mirror of society, not wholly representative, but a foggy mirror nonetheless. People actually do connect with movies and believe what is shown therein to be a reflection of the civilization they come from. So when and if you watch a movie that has been dubbed in Hindi, let it be Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, French, Spanish, Austrian, German, Australian, British or American, there may be discrepancies in the translation and since you may or may not know all these languages, you may not realize the differences between the original and dubbed dialogues.
It is not always apparent but we do understand different cultures only by watching the films made there unless you are a globe-trotting multi-millionaire intellectual who understands culture only by going to different countries and observing them closely. So our thinking is affected largely by what we see in films. This effect is unimaginable if viewed from a global perspective of the number of films dubbed wrongly and viewed by the Hindi populace of the world.
So you see how dummies dubbing our films can be dangerous? If not, then please do watch the film ‘Men in Black II’ in English and Hindi. And damn it is hilarious!
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