Furious 8, first Hollywood film to be dubbed in Kannada

As India gears up this week for the release of the eighth installment of the Fast & The Furious franchise, Universal Pictures, the film’s Indian distributors, is holding paid previews, two days ahead of the release, with an unprecedented  number of screens and show.

More importantly, Fate Of The Furious is the first Hollywood film to be dubbed into Kannada. Says a source, “Normally, all the big Hollywood films, and that includes all the previous seven installments of Fast & Furious were dubbed in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. This is the first international film to be dubbed in Kannada.”

Interestingly Karnataka does not allow films from other languages to be dubbed into Kannada. It remains to be seen how the Karnataka populace responds to this provocative linguistic stimulus.