Going the cartoon way.

Since the Asian games way back in the 80's and the colour TV revolution in India, TV has progressed by leaps and bounds(?). Suddenly you have more than a 100 channels at your finger tips and one normally sees a child glued to the TV switching between the Cartoon network, Disney channel, Jetix, Pogo etc. Earlier on the serials and programmes would be in English but then the companies must have thought that they would reach more impressionable audience if they were to dub their programmes in Hindi.... that being the national language. Well a very good marketing idea I say.... but what i can't understand is why are the characters made to speak Hindi like caricatures.... as a foreigner would speak Hindi. I have heard many kids speaking in that sing-song manner..... like Tom Alter playing a britisher from the Raj and talking to Mr Bharat (Manoj Kumar). Even the hindi programmes which are made in India also have the comperes speaking in a sing-song manner instead of educating the audience in chaste hindi.
TV has always been a very strong medium and it could have definitely been used to improve the Hindi of it's young audience. For the foreign programmes they could use sub titles instead of accented Hindi. Every language in the world has it's own distinctive body language. And accented hindi and OTT body language don't gel.
It becomes very difficult to correct a wrong pronounciation. Once it's set in your brain to wipe it out is an abs uphill task.
It saddens me when I see the kids speaking in this manner. Cos I do believe that the "maryada" of Hindi (or any other Indian language) is totally different from the "maryada" of any other foreign language. All languages have their own distinct flavours which should never be compromised upon.