Las week's Rajnikant's latest release Endhiran/Robot/Robo across world have make me curious to know what does Endhiran means? What can be a word as similar as Robot and used only in Tamil version.
This I asked my Tamil friend casually when we are having lunch together.
To that he boastfully told "Endhiran" was the name for machine,robot in Tamil.He sounded as if Tamil is very advanced language and as always think that they have separate roots than all other Indian languages. I am surprised to find Tamil language have a word for Robot. Good to see our own Indian language creating contemporary vocabulary, cursing the English titles for Hindi and Telugu versions.
One week passed by.
I am seeing/reading about this movie in news, internet etc but could not get any idea of that word. I could not even pronounce the word.
The clue came when I was casually watching a video where some anchor was talking about the movie. Suddenly I heard something different.I am shocked to find the roots of the word and can't stop smiling after that.
The mistake we did was we are reading as it spelled.
To understand this word etymology you have to understand how Tamilians speak day to day words. For example, for Satish they say Sadheesh. For Mahesh they even say Magesh. So in the same way "Endhiran" for non-tamilians it shd be "Enthiran" or "Entran".
See the second word. The word is found in almost all Indian languages. If you still did not get it, it is derived from Sanskrit word "Yantra" means machine. Every Indian whether Gujarati, Marati, Andhra, Hindi etc guys every one know it and it also part of their OWN language!
That is the beauty of Sanskrit. It is beautifully embedded in all our Indian languages and keep us together. Great example of Indian Unity as contemporary Indians are becoming more and more regional.
I don't have any feelings against Tamilians but I am against only those specific Periyar followers who say they are different from rest of India etc,etc.They distorted history, culture for decades but were not successful in making Tamilians align.Why? Because Tamil, Tamilians are implicitly,sub-consciously connected to whole India.When anyone is speaking Tamil you can see lot of Sanskrit words. Actually lot of Sanskrit words which are dead in Hindi by Urdu invasion are found in Tamil. They are preservers of Indian culture. Yantra is one great example.
Why didn't the Producers of the movie put "Yentr, "Yentra" or something like that as title in Tamil,Telugu and Hindi? It would then been a real, real pan-India movie.
I have to talk to my Tamil Friend now -:)
