Netflix’s ‘Guns And Gulaabs’ is going great guns on the streaming platform. Social media is inundated with viewers praising the performances, writing and humour in the series. Raj and DK’s Netflix series has won audiences over, and how! Lead cast Rajkummar Rao, Dulquer Salmaan, Gulshan Devaiah, and Adarsh Gourav have been winning accolades on social media from all around.
But there’s one category of people that is not at all pleased with Guns And Gulaabs on Netflix. In fact, they’re enraged as hell; and have taken to social media in droves, to vent their anger on Netflix India. That category of people are the Kannadigas – Kannada speaking people from Karnataka. Once again, it’s Kannada that has got the short end of the stick, when it comes to delivering dubbed versions of a popular, much-talked-about Indian web series.
Like always, Guns And Gulaabs is available to stream on Netflix in the original Hindi, and also Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam dubbed versions. And once again, there’s no Kannada dubbed version of Guns And Gulaabs on Netflix.
Which makes us wonder – why the continued bias against Kannada as a language? If OTT platforms can deliver content in dubbed versions of other South Indian languages, then why not Kannada? Why single out only Kannada and Kannadigas for no dubbed versions in their language?
Raj & DK and Netflix had promised earlier that their Guns And Gulaabs in Kannada will also be available on the platform soon. But the question is when? And why not give it at the time of the premiere of the series itself? Looks like it is too much to hope that Netflix will stick to its promise.
Guns And Gulaabs is the hottest and buzziest of Indian web shows, as of now. Soon, it will be old news, and a new series will take its place in the popularity stakes. What’s the point of releasing the Kannada dubbed version when interest in the series will be all but gone?
Kannada viewers have put in a gazillion requests to release Guns And Gulaabs in Kannada too. But the requests have gone unheeded — they are simply water off the duck’s back — we mean Netflix’s thick-skinned back.
Are you listening, Netflix?
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