Cute Indian Accent

I picked the movie "Love Actually" a couple of days back and as I watching it the nth time my attention was grabbed by this particular character.The guy who thought he could impress the American girls with his cute British accent.Infact he does "exceedingly well" to impress the American gals (if you have seen the movie you know what I mean).

That led me to think,unfortunately we can't take pride of a cute Indian accent.Well hereby by accent I mean the mastery over the elocution of the English language.Interestingly enough,our cute Indian accent on one hand symbolises our diversity and on the other easy identification of which community we belong too.Tell me.. how many times have you listened to a person's Indian accent and had confidently concluded he must be a Bong or jumped at joy and retorted "Are you a Mallu ?" or "Su Gujrati che" ....

Well cute or not it does give us '2' things

a) Our regional identify

b) Lots of laughter (MTV Lolla Kutty)

However today if I look around,accent neutralization has become a key to improving one's communication skills and thereby succeeding in the global business environment.

And in our frenzy to neutralize our accent and improve our communication skill (Definition:How fluently and correctly you speak the English language),I fear our generation would fail to pass on this funny British legacy.

Let me tell you the Britishers ruled our country for centuries but never bothered to get a cute Indian accent to impress us.Kolkata gave way to Calcutta....Mumbai to Bombay and Dilli to Delhi...So if colonial imperialism can succeed so can economic imperilism.
why bother what accent we have as long we are talking sense !!

So for me London should give way to Lawndawn.Atleast I can impress my mum ;-)
Wonder what Liz Hurley thinks of Aroon Nair's cute Indian accent.