Originally posted by: NotAMuggle
I don't know Rajamouli's exact words to criticize him on it..... Yes his RRR is primarily a Telugu movie and he is right about that! But it is also very much an INDIAN movie as much as any Punjabi/ Bengali/ Bhojpuri movie is an Indian movie. I hope he is denying just Bollywood's involvement & not of India's.
And everyone who thinks only North Indians bully the poor South Indians are just being too naive (or maybe a hypocrite?)🙂 . I am a Bengali & I have had the opportunity to stay both in Chennai & Delhi for work & have first hand experienced the complete opposite of this forum's general consensus. Delhi was much much more welcoming & friendlier to me than Chennai ever was. In Chennai I was continuously generalised as a North Indian, sometimes even as a "Bihari" (in spite of me correcting them numerous times) because of my skin colour & clothing choice. Communication was a nightmare because they would rather speak toota phoota incomprehensible English (a foreign language) than a common Indian language, to the point of my own roommate being downright rude to me & not bothering to translate necessary informations for me.👏👏 Whereas in Delhi, people just minded their own business & never even bothered to be bothered by my ethnicity. My roommate was from Ludhiana and she was like.... "Arrey! Aap Bengali ho?", I said "Yes! Aap Punjabi ho?" and that was it! Afterwards we had a very pleasant time staying together. 😅 Thankfully, now I am back in my place, but if I am ever given the option of revisiting either of these places, I would gladly choose Delhi. Thank you.🙂
And this attitude here is a huge problem for most South Indians.
1. There is no common Indian language. There is Hindi, which I assume you mean, which is spoken by a large number.
2. Going to a city and expecting them to speak *your* language or a language you assume they *must* know is just incredibly entitled.
3. A lot of south Indians do speak Hindi. Strangely, we find it puts us on a more equal footing if the toota-phoota English speaking north Indians are forced to communicate with us toota-phoota English speaking south Indians in that toota-phoota English.
The same in school or academic competitions or jobs.
Wonder why south Indians would not want to give native language advantage to a group that mocks them anyway 🤔. /sarc
4. In a thread where peeps talk about the mockery faced by south Indians for English, you generously demonstrated said mockery. The sneer is very obvious.
5. And yeah, Hindi is as foreign to a Malayali or a Tamilian as English. Foreign = something that's not native. Ie, mother tongue is not Hindi or English.
As for not preferring to visit Chennai again, those you met there might heartily reciprocate the sentiment given what I read in the thread.
Edited by HearMeRoar - 2 years ago
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