a few weeks ago when a section of pakistans film industry had raised concerns over hindi films eroding their market share directorproducer mahesh bhatt was among those whod empathized with them but now we hear that something similar may be brewing closer home buzz is that certain industry bigwigs are lobbying to convince the ministry of information and broadcasting to ban the dubbing of english films into local languages speaking to dt bhatt said there are similar apprehensions in bollywood and everyone is planning to come together and fight this practice of hollywood films being dubbed in hindi or tamil we cannot allow them to have a right over our mother tongue and use it to their advantage just because they have the budget hollywood studios have big budgets for promotions and we can never match that hindi film producers are now planning to come together against this letters have been written to the ib ministry secretary in the past also and i can say with full certainty that something similar is on the cards now we face similar issues in other states at times for instance i cannot get my movie dubbed in bengali in fact in south india english movies can only be dubbed in tamil and telugu and no other language says ravi kottarakara of the south indian film chamber of commerce adding as far as the association is concerned i cannot say anything but on a personal level i can say that we do face a loss of revenue when an english movie is dubbed in a regional language and released if such a step is taken by hindi film producers well certainly support it as im sure will other producers in south india its just like the selfimposed code of conduct we have in place for the kannada industry its a very fragile industry and no movie is dubbed in kannada to prevent competition for local cinema while the industry may seem to be uniting against english releases they will certainly face stiff resistance from the cinema owners lobby deepak sharma of pvr cinemas says this is not a practical move if they do something like this then international studios will also react also i dont agree that english movies dubbed in regional languages result in a loss of revenue we have released 30 english films so far and only one has been dubbed in all three languages hindi tamil and telugu there are other factors too when there is no hindi content in cinemas its usually english films or english films dubbed in hindi that get patrons to cinemas so the cinema lobby will never agree to thisin other states karnataka does not allow screening of dubbed films in andhra pradesh says suresh babu president of the ap film chamber of commerce there are serious concerns regarding hollywood films eating into the market of hindi and vernacular movies the general consensus is let hollywood release their films in india in