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Say NO to FORCIBLE CONVERSION of Hindi!

I rushed to enter Harry Potter – The Deathly Hallows (part 1) movie at 7pm to ensure I didn’t miss even the titles, but was tortured with 20 mins of Hindi advertisements. Well I was not in Delhi or in a Hindi movie. Why the hell am I shown ads in Hindi where the majority of the population DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HINDI. I am at Chennai PVR Cinemas to watch an English movie. Obviously, majority of the audience understood English. So why not have the dialogues for the ads in English? If you wanted to localize, then why not localize it in the state’s language which is TAMIL? I used to wonder this even in Bangalore. Why not Kannada, why Hindi? I can perfectly understand if it was a Hindi movie. But why for an English or worse a Tamil movie? Or else, why don't you just put music or mimes instead of having an unknown language? I just felt like banging their heads with a frying pan, the minds who come with these wonderful foolish narrow-minded ideas. Why narrow-minded? I will explain. For a...