Culture In the early 1990s, the dialect started to be used as a tool for ridicule, often to bring out the crude and villainous nature of a character or for comic relief.Priyanka RichiWhen the Telangana agitation was at its peak, apart from the demands for water, funds and jobs, there was a silent element that the protesters brought to the fore: the Telangana dialect. They sang and raised slogans in public, without fear of being mocked, in their mother tongue, which until then was associated with uncouth, uneducated masses in the Telugu states. Five year later, from Tharun Bhascker to Raj Rachakonda, today we have a host of directors and actors in Tollywood who have brought a sea change in the way the Telangana dialect has been used in Telugu movies. The industry, which once considered the dialect as the “other” in Telugu cinema, has now embraced movies that...
- 8/16/2019
- by Priyankar
- The News Minute
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