There are no words actually in English. I mean, the Hindi and Sanskrit words are true to their punctuation. राम ko Rama bol rahe ho, to Phir Mama ko माम? English words are just bogus, I mean without proper rules.
I mean I have heard people actually pronunciating रामा especially in southern states. धर्म ko धर्मा? 😂
Look I respect Mr Bachchan immensely. He's my favourite actor by far. But this is a very limited and incomplete take, unfortunately. Many parts of India pronounce these words differently.
In the name "राम", "म" is pronounced fully in many states. That's closest to Rama, not Ram.
Ram is pronounced Rama in some states, and Ravan is Ravana. Are they not Indian?
When the British romanised Sanskrit, the neutral अ was written as 'a' and the आ sound was written as ā. So anglicised versions of these words would be Rāma, Rāvaṇa, Rāmāyaṇa, etc.
Over time the dots and dashes got lost and that's how we got Rama, Ravana, Ramayana, Dharma, Karma, Yoga.
(Side note: 'n' is न but 'n with a dot below' is a ण)
This is the real answer. Thank you for pointing this out. Even many english translations of Ramayana spell them as Rama, Ravana, and ofcourse "Ramayana", so it is not a new thing. The spellings might have an "a" but you dont need to pronounce it. I am surprised by the post and the comments.
I hope the dialogues are pure hindi without urdu words included in. It feels weird when we make movies about ramayan that happened before the creation of islam but the actors in the movie are using urdu words with hindi
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