Thread by @fxdurandy

If you haven’t watched #AKvsAK (@VikramMotwane 🇮🇳 2020) yet, watch it! It’s amazing and kaleidoscopic! 🤩 1/10

Chances are you’ll need #subtitles, though. And since you people don’t sit through the end credits 🙄, I have compiled a list of (nearly all) #subtitlers. 😇 #loveyoursubtitler #nameyoursubtitler 2/10

The film is in both #हिंदी and #English, so let’s mention these two first:
🙏🏼 HI,EN>EN Sheela Sijin Matthews
🙏🏼 HI,EN>HI शालिनी शुक्ला Shalini Shukla 3/10

And now to the rest. 🌍 To the best of my research, none of these translators speaks #Hindi. Just think about the tour de force of translating a film you can’t understand! 😮 4/10

AR Shaima Gad
🇧🇷 Paula Padilha
🇭🇷 F. D. Falak
🇨🇿 Pavla Le Roch
🇩🇰 Maria Kastberg
🇫🇮 Ida Suninen
🇫🇷 Audrey Prévitali
🇩🇪 Bernd Karwath
🇬🇷 Erika Petrotou
🇭🇺 Hegyi Júlia
🇮🇩 Dinda Agarita
🇮🇹 Sarah Marcucci
🇯🇵 Yukari Honjo
🇰🇷 Son Hee-kyung
🇲🇾 Shazreena
5/10

🇳🇴 Erling
🇵🇱 Jakub Jadowski
🇵🇹 Ana Paula Moreira
🇷🇴 Maria-Andreea Popescu
🇷🇺 Tatiana Strelkova
🇪🇸 Luciana / Victoria Díaz
🇸🇪 Mattias Backström
🇮🇳 Hemalatha Ramachandran #தமிழ் Samata #తెలుగు
🇹🇷 Murat Karahan
🇻🇳 Phạm Vân
🇨🇳 Ge Xiaodan
🇭🇰 Zheng Siqi
6/10

As Aseem Chhabra @chhabs had noticed, @RanveerOfficial was localised as @chrishemsworth. 🔀 This trick was recycled into approximately one third of all foreign versions. 7/10

https://twitter.com/chhabs/status/1342514836337397760?s=20

More interestingly yet, this line “मार्टिन स्कोरसीसी की झांट का हिंदुस्तानी बाल भी नहीं है तू” was rendered as “You are not even good enough to be Martin Scorsese's fucking toenail.” Dialogues are by @anuragkashyap72 himself. 😂 8/10

The toenail image was retained in nearly all subsequent translations (even #தமிழ், which I am told could have gone more literal 🤭). 9/10

Thanks for reading and remember to #loveyoursubtitler. 💗 10/10