Om Books International has acquired rights to release Adventures of Tintin in Hindi. The popular comic strip has had over 40 translations, including languages like Zulu.
Tintin’s dog Snowy will be called Natkhat and detectives Thomson and Thompson will be christened Santu and Bantu. Black Island is 'Kaala Dweep', Cigars of the Pharaoh is 'Misr Samrat Ke Cigar', The Broken Ear is 'Tuta Hua Kaan', and the funniest is this - 'Sunehre Panjonwala Kekda'. I need not tell you which one that is.
Tintin will gasp 'Baal ki khaal' instead of 'Great snakes'. And imagine Haddock saying 'Ten thousand thundering typhoons' in Hindi: 'Dus hazaar thadthadate toofan'. See this interesting link to a list of Captain Haddock's curses - http://www.tintinologist.org/guides/lists/curses.html
Waiting to lay hands on the treasure of funny translations!
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