Multiple National Award winner Kangana Ranaut is an actress who never shies away from speaking her mind. She recently spoke about the ongoing controversy over calling Hindi a national language at the trailer launch event of her upcoming film 'Dhaakad'. The recent tweets of Bollywood star hero Ajay Devgn and Kannada hero Kiccha Sudeep led to a huge debate over the national language of our country. Even a few politicians got involved in this making it a big issue.
Speaking at the event Kangana shared her opinion on this by saying, "We are a country of a lot of diversities, languages, and cultures. And it is our birthright to feel proud of our respective culture and language. I am a Pahadi. However, when we consider our nation, in order to make it one unit, we need a thread to connect all of us together. When the constitution was made, Hindi became a national language. And now when you say Tamil is actually older than Hindi, it should be noted that Sanskrit is older than that.
In my opinion, Sanskrit should be our national language, because Kannada, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindi, all these languages originated from Sanskrit. I do not have the answer if you ask me if so, why Sanskrit wasn't made our national language instead of Hindi. Those decisions would have been made during a certain time. There are a lot of layers to this issue. And when you are talking about language, you should be aware of all these layers. When you deny Hindi, you are denying the constitution and the government of Delhi."
Adding to it, Kangana stated, "When you go abroad, the German, Spanish, French - they are very proud of their language. But no matter how dark the colonial history is, fortunately, or unfortunately, English has become that link. Today even within our country we are using English as the link to communicate.
Should that be the link? Or should Hindi, Sanskrit, or Tamil be that link? We have to decide that. We have to make that call. So keeping all these in mind, a decisive call should be taken.
As of now, Hindi is the national language. And when Ajay Devgn ji said, Hindi is our national language, he is not wrong. But I understand the sentiment of Sudeep and he is not wrong either. And if people saying that Kannada and Tamil are older than Hindi, then they aren't wrong either. Also, it is very unfortunate that there is a debate on South and North films. They have always received stepmotherly treatment and it shouldn't have been so in the first place.
It is also very unfortunate that we have never had a South actor in Bollywood as a leading actor. If things were under my control, I would say Sanskrit is the legitimate language, from which German, English, and French have originated. Why don't we have the Sanskrit language as the national language? Why is Sanskrit not mandatory in schools? I don't know that."
Her upcoming film 'Dhaakad' is hitting the screens on 20th May.
Speaking at the event Kangana shared her opinion on this by saying, "We are a country of a lot of diversities, languages, and cultures. And it is our birthright to feel proud of our respective culture and language. I am a Pahadi. However, when we consider our nation, in order to make it one unit, we need a thread to connect all of us together. When the constitution was made, Hindi became a national language. And now when you say Tamil is actually older than Hindi, it should be noted that Sanskrit is older than that.
In my opinion, Sanskrit should be our national language, because Kannada, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindi, all these languages originated from Sanskrit. I do not have the answer if you ask me if so, why Sanskrit wasn't made our national language instead of Hindi. Those decisions would have been made during a certain time. There are a lot of layers to this issue. And when you are talking about language, you should be aware of all these layers. When you deny Hindi, you are denying the constitution and the government of Delhi."
Adding to it, Kangana stated, "When you go abroad, the German, Spanish, French - they are very proud of their language. But no matter how dark the colonial history is, fortunately, or unfortunately, English has become that link. Today even within our country we are using English as the link to communicate.
Should that be the link? Or should Hindi, Sanskrit, or Tamil be that link? We have to decide that. We have to make that call. So keeping all these in mind, a decisive call should be taken.
As of now, Hindi is the national language. And when Ajay Devgn ji said, Hindi is our national language, he is not wrong. But I understand the sentiment of Sudeep and he is not wrong either. And if people saying that Kannada and Tamil are older than Hindi, then they aren't wrong either. Also, it is very unfortunate that there is a debate on South and North films. They have always received stepmotherly treatment and it shouldn't have been so in the first place.
It is also very unfortunate that we have never had a South actor in Bollywood as a leading actor. If things were under my control, I would say Sanskrit is the legitimate language, from which German, English, and French have originated. Why don't we have the Sanskrit language as the national language? Why is Sanskrit not mandatory in schools? I don't know that."
Her upcoming film 'Dhaakad' is hitting the screens on 20th May.