Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan and multilingual film act♐or Kichcha Sudeep engaged in a 'brotherly argument' on Twitter on the topic of whether Hindi is a na🤪tional language or not.
However💃, Sudeep clarified that the context in which he made the statemen🙈t was different from the way it was perceived and that it was not intended to provoke, hurt or start a debate.
The trigger for t🤪he argument was Sudeep's statement three days ago🍨 during a function in Bengaluru where the who's who of the Kannada film industry celebrated the nationwide success of 'KGF-2' starring Yash.
When the compere of the event said 'KGF-2' had a pan-India effect, Sudeep said Hindi is no more a natio🗹nal language.
"You (compere) said the Kannada film (KGF-2) had pan-India effect. Let there be a correction -- Hindi is no more a nat💦ional language. Hindi (film industry) should say that they are doing pan-India films today. They are struggling and dubbing their movies in Tamil and Telugu, yet it is not happening (business)," Sudeep had said.
Sudeep added that a pan-India mo🅘vie was not✃ the concept because people are just making films which reached everywhere due to dubbing.
He explained that way back in the 197ꦆ0s, China started dubbing Chinese films into English and it was accepted whereas in India the process started quite late.
"Lang꧂uage is just a barrier. Today, it is broken. It's no more pan India. (The term) 'Pan India' is coming Mumbai," Sudeep said.
This statem🌄ent did not go down well with Ajay Devgn.
He tweeted in Hindi, which translated to,如KicchaSudeep, my brother, according to you if Hindi is not our national language then why do you release your movies, made in your mother tongue, by dubbing th🌺em in Hindi? Hindi was, is and always will be our mother tongue and national language. Jan Gan Man."
Sudeep replied, 滴ello @ajaydevgn sir.. the context to why I said that line is entirely different to the way I guess it has reached you. Probably will emphasis on why the statꦫement was made when I see you in person. It wasn't to hurt, provoke or to start any debate. Why would I sir?
The Kannada actor reminded Devgn𝄹 thꦑat he did understand the text that was sent on Twitter in Hindi.
"That痴 only coz we all have respected, loved and learnt Hindi. No offense sir but was wondering what'd the situation be if my response was typed in Kannada.!! Don't we too belong to Indꦫia sir?" Sudeep said.
Sudeep further said: "I love and respeܫct every language of our country sir. I would want this topic to rest, as I said the line in a totally different context. Mch luv and wshs to you always. Hoping to seeing you soon (sic)."
To this, Devgn replied, "Hi @KicchaSudeep, You are a friend. thanks for clearing up the misunderstanding. I致e always thought of the film industry as one. We respect all languages and we expect everyone to respect our language as well. Perhaps, something was lost in translation".(With PTI inputs)
