The original film is filled with puns about time (e.g., "Time is chasing me," "Doing time"). The Hindi translators cleverly adapted these to "Kaal mujhe pakad raha hai" and "Waqt barbaad mat karo." While not literal, they retain the humor.
The film’s central, often-overlooked strength is its emotional arc about Alice reconciling with her mother’s expectations. The Hindi dub handled this with surprising sensitivity. In English, Alice’s mother asks her to give up her captaincy for financial security. In Hindi, the dialogue was localized to resonate with Indian family pressures: " Beta, ladkiyon ka ghar sansar hai, samandar nahi " (Daughter, a girl’s world is her home, not the ocean). This direct appeal to gendered expectations in India made Alice’s rebellion more poignant. When Alice finally says, " Main apni kahani khud likhti hoon " (I write my own story), the Hindi line carried a weight that echoed contemporary Indian feminist discourse. The dubbing team thus ensured that the film’s core message—self-determination over societal duty—was not lost in translation. alice through the looking glass hindi 2016 dubbed work