English Translated Indian Movies

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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)
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Posted 2 years ago

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2 years ago
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Cheryl Ankeney

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THAT HAPPENS IN REVERSE, TOO
2 years ago
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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.
2 years ago
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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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2018-08-26T19:49:07+00:00
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Zantar95

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The 'Original' setting fixed the issue. How would this work on the mobile app?

Thank You
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2 years ago
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Perhaps not related to these examples from India, but it’s still good to read this guide about the titles:

https://help.imdb.com/article/contrib...#

Sometimes there’s no ”official” English title, so ”literal English title” or ”informal English title” are used. But obviously these shouldn’t be listed as ”imdb display title” or even ”alternate title”.
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