Showing posts with label Mullum Malarum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mullum Malarum. Show all posts

Jun 22, 2010

The pain of yearning that spinach cause...

Mullum MalarumImage via Wikipedia
I don't whether this is a legitimate use of blog: I read this interesting article about subtitles- Indian subtitles!

"I imagine a video editing suite somewhere in the suburbs of Mumbai or Chennai, where the key moment arrives and the lead translator hands off the balance of the film to some sub-subtitler and heads outside for a well-deserved masala dosa.He says that "the greatest amount of South Asian subtitle strangeness" occurs in the songs, and presents a couple of wondrous examples: "On the tip of the noses love enjoys even the beauty of crows!" and "Thoughts of various spinaches make me yearn." The latter is from from Mullum Malarum (Tamil, 1978), and I have to say, it tempts me to see the movie."- Language Hat

It is tragic that Mullum Malarum- a classic Tamil Film- is not widely known outside Tamil Nadu except for this immortal translation- "Thoughts of various spinaches make me yearn."




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