Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Dharmendra Speaks Sanskrit

Film dialogues to popularise Sanskrit!
Updated on Sunday, September 06, 2009, 16:13 IST Ahmedabad: A city-based academy has hit upon a novel idea to popularise country`s oldest language and has taken the help of Indians` biggest passion--Hindi movies.

A Sanskrit-teaching academy here has taken up the mantle to bust the popular notion that the language is hard to learn and of little use.Eklavya Sanskrit Academy (ESA) is using dialogues from Bollywood super hits like Sholay and Deewar, and is translating them in Sanskrit to popularise 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 become "Kaalia, tav ki bhavisyasi?" in Sanskrit.

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