Obsessed with Tamil and Hindi
If you have been watching various Malayalam cinema award functions and music related reality shows, you would have noticed this trend of not singing much Malayalam songs, but more and more Hindi and Tamil Songs. varnachitram compares this with the trend in other states and wonders why Malayalees are so obsessed with everything except their own culture.
We should not have hatred towards Hindi the way Tamilians do, but watching Amritha and Surya award programs, we do not see fascination, but an obsession. It is not just the award programs: in our reality singing shows there are more other language songs, and in our movies all our heroes now are settled in Pollachi. Some folks spin this as open mindedness of Malayalis, but spinning this obsession as open mindedness is just a cover for our inferiority complex
2 comments
Jennifer
May 7th, 2008, 1:19 pm | #
I have always been curious about this too, especially after watching these programs on Surya TV. But, I think this is becoming true in the cinema songs themselves too as I have heard some Malayalam songs of late sprikled with Hindi stanzas.
JK
May 7th, 2008, 9:54 pm | #
There are fast paced songs in Malayalam cinema by younger composers like Deepak Dev, but people seem to be more inclined to Tamil and Hindi. Rajnikanth and Vijay movies run to packed houses in Kerala and they are released without dubbing.
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