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The performance is shot once. The language is not a remake.

Original series written and shot in South Indian languages, then carried into others without reshooting the performance.

Play with the sound on. The lip-sync is the point, and it is inaudible muted. Films play vertically, as they are made and as they are watched.

The flagship

One production, two languages. The promo pair opens; the episode pair shows it holds for a full episode, where a sustained dialogue scene has nowhere to hide.

The Sengol: Aakhri Chola Tamil · Promo · Original
The Sengol: Aakhri Chola Hindi · Promo
The Sengol: Aakhri Chola Tamil · Episode 1 · Original
The Sengol: Aakhri Chola Hindi · Episode 1
The slate

Two further original series, in a different register.

Dharma's Edge Hindi · Episode 1
Dharma's Edge Hindi · Extended
Aukaat ka Taraazu Hindi · Episode 1
The method

How the performance travels. The comparison reads with the sound off; the breakdown shows the working.

Side-by-side comparison Localisation · Demo
Breakdown Localisation · Demo
Non-fiction

The same method applied to explanatory work, direct to consumer. The Tamil piece is an original, not a localisation.

1.5% a month is not 18% a year Tamil · Original
No-cost EMI: who is actually paying? Hindi
Why you understand English but freeze when you speak it Hindi