Hindi Movie Dialogues To Promote Sanskrit

September 25, 2009 by akshay_eanveshan

A Sanskrit-teaching academy based in Ahamdabad is using the dialogues
from Hindi movies to promote India’s oldest language, Sanskrit.

This
initiative has been taken by the Academy to break the popular view that
the Sanskrit is a language which is hard to learn and of little use.

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Sanskrit Academy (ESA) has been using the dialogues from some Bollywood
super hit movies like Sholay and Deewar, which is then translated into
Sanskrit. This initiative is aimed at promoting the ancient language
among the youth and general public.

"There is a myth prevailing
among people that Sanskrit is a difficult language. They also think of
it as a language which has no use," Mihir Upadhyay, director of the
academy, told reporters.

"But, the language has immense
potential. Even the advertising world quotes Sanskrit shlokas and many
manuscripts hold great knowledge. We want to create awareness about
Sanskrit and promote research," he said.

"We also want to show
people that Sanskrit is an easy and interesting language. To popularise
it, we recently did an experiment by using dialogues of around 17
superhit Hindi films to attract people, mainly youths," Upadhyay said.

For
example, the famous dialogue by Amjad Khan (Gabbar) in film Sholay, "Ab
tera Kya Hoga Kalia? (What will happen to you Kalia), will be
translated as "Kaalia, tav ki bhavisyasi?" in Sanskrit.

Source : www.hindimoviedialogues.blogspot.com

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