English Translated Indian Movies

I noticed a large amount of Indian movies are being translated into English. These translated titles are very mediocre and its better off leaving the primary title of the movies in their hindi titles. The translations come off very lame. The English translated title should appear as the secondary title.

Please keep the Indian movies in their original titles and change the translated ones back to original.

Here are some examples of mediocre translated movie titles:

- Boothnath : Lord of Ghosts
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0991346/?bhoothnath)

- Chupke Chupke : Hush Hush
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072783/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

- Taare Zameen Par : Like Stars on Earth
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986264/?ref_=nm_knf_t1)

- Namak Haram : Traitor
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070434/?ref_=nv_sr_2)

- Zanjeer : Chains
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070947/?ref_=nv_sr_2)

Zantar95

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Posted 2 years ago

2 years ago

Peter, Champion

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Were the titles in fact used for English-language releases? If so, they should be listed and may be displayed to you.

You can choose to always see original titles in your site settings.

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2 years ago

Col Needham, Official Rep

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See Peter's helpful reply above (thanks). If these AKA titles were not used, please submit corrections, see the guide at https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/alternate-titles-akas/GBFBWTQG2RLMHSUR (and generally see https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/contribution-information/how-do-i-contribute-data-to-imdb...)

Alternatively, to change your site settings, please go to https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general and on the menu "Title display country" please choose "Original" which is the first item on the menu. This will block the localization of titles.

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