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This is an archive article published on January 27, 2016
Milap Zaveri: It’s a tendency to look down on our language
Milap Zaveri feels that it's due to the language barrier that people find such films distasteful.
“I feel its a problem of the language barrier. We see the same things in English with the ‘American Pie’ and ‘We Are The Millers’… we laugh and enjoy,” Milap Zaveri said.
Writer-director Milap Zaveri, who has written adult comedies like “Masti”, “Grand Masti” and has directed “Mastizaade”, feels that it’s due to the language barrier that people find such films distasteful and feels that “it’s a tendency to look down on our language”.
“I feel its a problem of the language barrier. We see the same things in English with the ‘American Pie’ and ‘We Are The Millers’… we laugh and enjoy. I think it’s a tendency to look down on our language and say ‘oh Hindi main cheap lagta hai’ (Oh it sounds cheap in Hindi),” Zaveri told IANS.
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