Sriram,
The first time I saw a group of North Indians and a group of Tamilians (who didn’t know Hindi) arguing over language was when I started working. I couldn’t believe that still there are many well-educated people who fight over language issues. As you have said, I am not interested in discussing about the language issue at all.

Bharath,
Nope this is the second. The first comment was for my Madras day post.
After seeing the chemistry between the lead pairs and the wonderful scenes in Mani Ratnam’s movies, everything else might seem lukewarm But watch the movie without any expectations and this will immediately fall into the category of feel-good movies, though there is nothing extraordinary about it.

it’s not a question of ‘cant’ & that wasn’t what I said. from your other post it’s obvious you went to great lengths to learn hindi. Learning any language other than one’s native one takes tremendous amount of effort and time so i’m always amazed by people who are multi-lingual. Some desis that I have met o/side India who speak hindi as their native language don’t seem to realize or acknowledge it - they just presume one should ‘know’ hindi if one’s from India! they seem uncomfortable with the fact that there’s a substantial minority like me who’s clueless about it and still call themselves Indian. even my ex-roomie initially thought i was flaunting my ignorance of hindi by ‘wearing it on my sleeve’ as he called it! so when i see bloggers like you dabble in movie reviews like this, i wonder if its contributing to the unreasonable expectation that everyone shld know hindi - even where its not part of the local culture. anyway, language issue is a minefield & im not sure u want to tread there on ur blog