"When Ajay Devgn said that Hindi is our national language, he wasn’t wrong." Watch Kangana Ranaut's take on the language debate.
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00:00I think the national language should be Sanskrit.
00:02When you deny Hindi,
00:04then you are denying the Delhi government, which is our constitution.
00:15There is no...
00:16If you want me to give you a direct answer,
00:19there is no direct answer to this.
00:21You can take out a direct answer from my statement.
00:25But if you can give me two minutes,
00:28then I can give you my thoughts on this subject.
00:31In our society,
00:35we are a country of a lot of diversity in languages and cultures.
00:40Everyone has a right from birth,
00:43that even if I am a mountaineer,
00:45I should feel proud of my culture and language.
00:50But our country,
00:52to make it one unit,
00:54we need a thread to run through it.
00:58If we want to respect the constitution,
01:03then when they made it, they made Hindi the national language.
01:08When you say that Tamil is actually older than Hindi,
01:13but Sanskrit is even older than that.
01:15If you want to ask my statement,
01:18I think the national language should be Sanskrit.
01:21Because from Kannada to Tamil,
01:24from Gujarati to Hindi,
01:26everything has come from Sanskrit.
01:28So why did they make Hindi instead of Sanskrit?
01:31I don't have the answer to that.
01:34Those are the decisions taken at that time.
01:36But when Khalistan demands that they don't believe in Hindi,
01:41then when the youth are misled, it's not about that.
01:44They are denying the constitution.
01:47Do you understand that?
01:49So when you say that there was a Tamil movement,
01:53they wanted a separate nation.
01:54When you say that you demand the Bengal Republic,
01:57and say that you don't consider Hindi as a language,
02:00then you are not denying Hindi.
02:02What you are denying is Delhi being the central centre of the government.
02:08Understand?
02:09So there are many layers to this.
02:12So when you talk about this, you should have an idea of all these layers.
02:17So when you deny Hindi,
02:19then you are denying the Delhi government.
02:24Right?
02:25Am I right or wrong?
02:27You don't believe in Delhi.
02:28Because our constitution, whether it's the Supreme Court,
02:30or any other act,
02:31whatever the government does in Delhi,
02:34it does it in Hindi.
02:36Even if you travel the country,
02:37even if you go abroad,
02:39whether it's German, Spanish or French,
02:42they are very proud about their language.
02:44But no matter how dark the colonial history is,
02:48fortunately or unfortunately,
02:50English has become that link.
02:52Today, even within the country,
02:54we are using English as the link to communicate.
02:57Should that be the link?
02:58Or should Hindi or Sanskrit be that link?
03:01Or Tamil?
03:02We have to decide that.
03:04We have to take that call.
03:06So keeping all these in mind,
03:08a decisive call should be taken.
03:11As of now,
03:12the constitution has Hindi as the national language.
03:16So what Ajay Devgn said,
03:17that Hindi is the national language,
03:19he did not say that wrong.
03:21If you listen to my entire point,
03:24then that is your weakness.
03:25But if someone says that Kannada is older than Hindi,
03:29and so is Tamil,
03:30then they are not wrong either.
03:33If I have it in my hands,
03:34then I think Sanskrit is the legitimate language,
03:37from which German has also come,
03:39English, French,
03:40all have stemmed from Sanskrit.
03:42Why don't we have Sanskrit as the national language?
03:45Why is it not mandatory in schools?
03:47I don't know that.
03:48Okay?