Here’s a piece of news form the Indian Subcontinent. It’s very rare we get to share a valuable piece of Transformers News from our side of the globe. Let me assure you, there are plenty of TF Fans here (mostly movie) and we are breaking our country movie box-office records.
This video is from India, my neighboring country. As you all may know, Akshay Kumar received the vote from Michael Bay himself to voice Optimus Prime for Transformers: Dark of the Moon Hindi Dub.
He certainly seems to be having fun lending his voice to the most iconic Autobot to date. Bollywood Superstar Akshay Kumar spent his day from the wee hours of the morning and late into the night, dedicating himself to the role. He mentioned one other thing… he did it for free.
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My guess is that the rest of the countries got professional voice actors, not a local movie star doing the voice.
The dubbing for Latin America was really good, I enjoyed it a lot.
akamarov
All right, all right! Just had my Valium.
rizuan76
Hey hey calm down here man, no need to get all so worked up & burst a blood vessel for it.
Can't we all just agree to disagree here for once?
akamarov
Hey smartass, have you done any research about the Indian film industry? On an average based in the last 2/3 years the Indian film industry makes at the max. 3/4 billion dollars a years, that too with hundreds of films released every year. It takes Hollywood just a couple to Films to beat that.
akamarov
Enjoy it buddy, enjoy it! Be sure to visit a doctor after this.
little super star dance with transformers Bumblebee‏ – YouTube
Did you only see the Hindi dub or both? Or have you ever seen the Hindi dub or is it just "hava ki batein" only to support Akki, cause knowing Indians very good, I can tell how good Indians are at "chamchagiri" of your stars. I mean if "tapori" movies like "dabangg" are considered superhits, and stars like Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Emran Hashmi………………. are considered "Superstars", not to mention the new modern songs…. I can pretty much say Bollywood is bullshit, unless you want see them, take a laugh and forget. Yet, Indians still like to compare Bollywood with Hollywood which kinda pisses me off. This has often been a cause of arguments with my cousins and friends in India, hell they even consider Rajnikanths "ROBOT" more interesting and much better than iRobot, Terminator, Transformers and Matrix put together.
Drekar
He did a very good job on optimus, and his take on dubbin him was somethin i had never thought about, how to bring personality to a role no ones ever experienced, how to bring realism to a larger than life hero livin through the destruction of his planet due to a war hes half responsible for. Very good point Akshay, anyways, thanks for sharin man
Lejamonster
Minorities ? What does that mean ?
US populations in 2011 : 308 745 538
India in 2011 : 1 210 193 422
-> be curious and make some research about Indian film industry turnover…
You will very surprised how this "minority" beats the game…
Btw, Akshay Kumar did a pretty good work on Optimus voice.
akamarov
I don't understand why the hell is so much importance given to Akshay Kumar. I being half Indian understand Hindi very well, and decided to see the Hindi dub. All the voice actors were terribile, and our "Singh is King" guy sounded gay. Optimus Prime is supposed to have a deep voice. I have to agree with a previous poster on this thread that Amitabh Bachan's voice would have suited Optimus much more, but, thanks to Bay for making another ******ed decision. Akshay's voice performance was total shit, yet he still made the front page, TWO TIMES, WTF? I saw a couple of clips of the Russian dub (I understand Russian) on YouTube, that sounded way better than the amateur Indian dub, where the hell are the front page news about the Russian voice of Optimus Prime, or the French voice, or the German voice, or any other?
Oh, and the Indian audiance, you just gotta love them, after watching a 2hr movie the only thing they understood after coming out was "OPTIMUS PRRRRIME", "BUMBLEBEE" and "MEGATON".
FreshDebesh
Ratchet bhai
Incepticon
Ugh
They should have just stuck with sub-titles. I don't care what language it is, overdubs always suck.
13 Primes
THIS
I'm sure he's good for his country
But there is only One Optimus Prime
and that is Peter Cullen
megabot6969
He would be the only one besides Cullen that deserves recognition for Portraying Prime.
rizuan76
Well the Japanese one is dubbed by Tessho Genda who also did the G1 cartoon version of Convoy too (wayback in the 80's)..
megabot6969
So , who is the Spanish dub voice actor, or the Chinease, or the French, who gives a F@#k. There is one Prime, and that is Peter Cullen.
Deceptijohn
Yeah I lived with a guy from Sri Lanka at college for a couple of years. He taught us some different phrases, but the intervening years and lack of use have dulled my remembrance. I remembered two of the phrases as being literally " x up your ass" one was bamboo and the other was a thorny plant I never heard of that sounded like kohilla. One meant screw you and the other meant calm down.
I still have the sarong he gave me. I pull it out in the winter and wear it around the house because it's amazingly warm for such a thin material. My family really gets a kick out of my "man-skirt" hehe.
C2567
Bamboogahagunda!??
its >
Gihin puke gahaganing
(Ge-Heen Poo-kay gaha-guning)
Transformed
Here's hoping any Bollywood exclusive dance number shows up on all Blu-ray copies. CGI animated Bollywood Cybertronians cutting a rug on Cybertron, the moon or Earth would look pretty hot!
DrawerDemon
Other sites don't copy because your writing's good or bad, they copy because it's easy. Plagiarism isn't the same as imitation.
Thanks for listening.
Sprocket
I have honestly never heard of this guy before.
I'm sure he's pretty famous within India and its surrounding countries though!
TFfan08
Dubbing is so stupid