Ban wanted by B'wood on dubbing in hindi of Hollywood movies
There is a buzz is that certain industry bigwigs are lobbying to convince the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to ban the dubbing of English films into local languages
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M.Bhatt said-"There are similar apprehensions in Bollywood and everyone is planning to come together and fight this practice of Hollywood films being dubbed in Hindi or Tamil. We cannot allow them to have a right over our mother tongue and use it to their advantage just because they have the budget.Hollywood studios have big budgets for promotions and we can never match that. Hindi film producers are now planning to come together against this. Letters have been written to the I&B ministry secretary in the past also, and I can say with full certainty that something similar is on the cards now. We face similar issues in other states at times. For instance, I cannot get my movie dubbed in Bengali "
in south India, English movies can only be dubbed in Tamil and Telugu and no other language.While the industry may seem to be uniting against English releases, they will certainly face stiff resistance from the cinema owners' lobby. Deepak Sharma of PVR Cinemas says, "This is not a practical move. If they do something like this, then international studios will also react. Also, I don't agree that English movies dubbed in regional languages result in a loss of revenue. We have released 30 English films so far and only one has been dubbed in all three languages - Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. There are other factors too. When there is no Hindi content in cinemas, it's usually English films or English films dubbed in Hindi that get patrons to cinemas. So the cinema lobby will never agree to this."
M.Bhatt said-"There are similar apprehensions in Bollywood and everyone is planning to come together and fight this practice of Hollywood films being dubbed in Hindi or Tamil. We cannot allow them to have a right over our mother tongue and use it to their advantage just because they have the budget.Hollywood studios have big budgets for promotions and we can never match that. Hindi film producers are now planning to come together against this. Letters have been written to the I&B ministry secretary in the past also, and I can say with full certainty that something similar is on the cards now. We face similar issues in other states at times. For instance, I cannot get my movie dubbed in Bengali "
in south India, English movies can only be dubbed in Tamil and Telugu and no other language.While the industry may seem to be uniting against English releases, they will certainly face stiff resistance from the cinema owners' lobby. Deepak Sharma of PVR Cinemas says, "This is not a practical move. If they do something like this, then international studios will also react. Also, I don't agree that English movies dubbed in regional languages result in a loss of revenue. We have released 30 English films so far and only one has been dubbed in all three languages - Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. There are other factors too. When there is no Hindi content in cinemas, it's usually English films or English films dubbed in Hindi that get patrons to cinemas. So the cinema lobby will never agree to this."
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