Is the era of pure Hindi films ever returning?

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Posted: 15 years ago

😕 Ok, you might find this kind of ironic. I do enjoy English in Hindi films, but to a certain extent. I have to watch with English subtitles. However, watching a pure Hindi film does interest me more than watching English in every frame. Then, I can watch Hollywood films then! 😆 The Hindi language is so underrated and beautiful. So many Bollywood films have been ruined with excessive English dialouges, especially Guzaarish and Kites. Has the era of pure Hindi films come to an end? I remember films in the late 80's, early to mid 90's had so many films with hardly any English. If we watch films in other countries, do French, Spanish, or any other cultural film have excessive English dialouges? Why can't Hindi films stop this trend?

Please share your thoughts! 😃

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Aditi

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Posted: 15 years ago

Delhi Belly is a pure English film. 😆

Actually, I don't know why Hindi is used very little now. English is the official language in India and it is spoken mainly by the educated middle-class. I guess everyone is so used to English they just incorporate that into their films now. But yes, I miss pure Hindi.

It is I guess to show that Indian cinema is changing. But I can't tell if it is for the better or for worse. Films like Tere Bin Laden, LSD, Udaan, Peepli Live show a change for betterment. Then there are films like Kites and Guzaarish and films that can't have at least one scene with the leads making out that show a change for the worse.

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Posted: 15 years ago

Is the era of pure Hindi films ever returning?

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Posted: 15 years ago

good the B-flicks have become realistic these days. nowadays, most of the Indians don't even converse using pure hindi.

IMO, maintaining purity of language might cause inconvenience.

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Posted: 15 years ago

Honesty I don't think we'll get that era back. Times have changed. Society has changed. :/ :(

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Posted: 15 years ago

well if ur using kites and guzaarish as exampples then the reason is that kites was a movie with the female being spanish n the male was indian. so engligh was their main form of communifaction. and guzaarish about a group of people who seemed to be more western then indian even in the way the lived. i dont live in india so i dont know if this is true for not but in movies they seem to always show if christians in india speak english more than hindi. again i dunno if its tru or not.

but yea..i do feel that many times english is used in scenes where perhaps using hindi wud have made it easier for the audience in understand. i dunno sometimes that english dialouges seem forced.

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Posted: 15 years ago

Originally posted by: Cutiepie Rani
Honesty I don't think we'll get that era back. Times have changed. Society has changed. :/ :(

then they should start calling hingish film industry instead of hindi film industry..........

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Originally posted by: stars4u

then they should start calling hingish film industry instead of hindi film industry..........

That would be very weird to say the least! 😕😕😕

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Well... This is just another sign of the changing times we are in....Will we ever get back the India we had in the 90's ...NO...

Exactly the same way the kind of movies from that time and the kind of content and the language too will not come back....

India has changed since then and so has Bollywood...

And coming to movies like Kites and Guzaarish...even if the movie was totally in hindi even then the fate would have been the same... They were doomed ventures...

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Originally posted by: -Maddy-
Well... This is just another sign of the changing times we are in....Will we ever get back the India we had in the 90's ...NO...
Exactly the same way the kind of movies from that time and the kind of content and the language too will not come back....

India has changed since then and so has Bollywood...

And coming to movies like Kites and Guzaarish...even if the movie was totally in hindi even then the fate would have been the same... They were doomed ventures...

I actually enjoy pure Hindi films despite the fact I am not fluent in the language. Like I mentioned before, the Hindi language is beautiful and underrated. To mix Hindi and English together in films is unnatural and really unappealing!