Bollywood misguided over national language

Ever since the sensation of Pushpa, RRR and KGF2 in Bollywood, Bollywood mainstream media, stars and critics are unable to digest the fact that dubbed films from South virtually crushed their films, This resulted in the hurt ego and from then on stars like Ajay Devgn, John Abraham, Abhishek Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddique and others started coming out with belittling statements over the success of those films. The war of words between Kicha Sudeep and Ajay Devgn left all shocked.

Kicha Sudeep commented that Hindi is no longer a national language while Ajay Devgn said Hindi was and will be the national language. Political parties also entered the debate and in the midst of all this, even Kangana Ranaut questioned "If you ask me which language should be the national language, then I think it should be Sanskrit. Sanskrit is older than Kannada, Tamil, Gujarati or Hindi. All these languages have come from Sanskrit. Then why hasn’t Sanskrit become the national language and Hindi has? "

Those who are observing all these developments are of the opinion that Hindi is not the national language and Bollywood and the North people are misguided over it and are still in misconception over their argument. Even Kicha Sudeep was wrong when he said Hindi is no longer the official language. Everyone should realise that India has no national language. Although the majority of northern and western states speak Hindi, it is not the national language of the country.While Hindi is not a national language, article 343(1) of the Indian constitution specifically mentions that Hindi in Devanagari script and English are the official languages in India.

The primary difference between national and official language is that while the former is associated with the country’s socio-political and cultural functions, the latter has more to do with the government and its affairs.That said, an official language does not refer to the language used by a people or country, but by its government, whereas a national language is spoken by a large part of the population of a country, which may or may not be designated an official language.