Netizens flood twitter with memes after Marvel’s Shang-Chi changes beef to veg biryani in Hindi dubbed version

The Hindi dubbed version of Marvel Studios ‘Shang-Chi The Legend of Ten Rings has a variation from the original English version. In a particular scene, the translation of ‘beef’ in the original English audio is changed to ‘veg biryani’.

The scene in question has the titular superhero (Simu Liu) going to China with his friend Katy (Awkwafina) to find his estranged sister. In the flight, Shang-Chi is narrating his backstory to Katy (and the audience) and suddenly they are interrupted by a flight attendant.

In the original audio, the attendant asks them whether they will have beef or vegetarian, as there is no chicken and those are the only two options. Katy responds, “Vegetarian would be great.” Before Shang-Chi can continue his story, the attendant interrupts them again to say there is no vegetarian either, so beef remains the only option.

But in the Hindi version, the original options are vegetarian or non-vegetarian. The attendant adds there is actually no non-vegetarian food available. When the two say they want vegetarian, she tells them that there is no option in vegetarian either, so their only option is is veg biryani (which, as the name suggests, is vegetarian).

The change was noticed by a Twitter account called @RohitThayyil. The tweet and the comments below the tweet suggested that the change is there also in other Indian languages. For instance, beef becomes upma in Tamil and bread omelette in Malayalam.