The Chosen Ab 42 Indian Languages Mein?!

0:00The Chosen ab 42 Indian languages mein aa raha hai: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Mizo, Santali, and yes, Haryanvi. Think about Peter's line in the Haryanvi subtitle, "Re baba, paani pe chalna hai, pehle bata deta!" Stay with me, aaj sirf achhi khabrein hain. Hi, kaise hain aap? Main hoon Prem, and this is 5Talents Rewind. Achhi khabar, bina boring hue. Duniya mein bahut negative news hai, toh yahan hum sirf positive Christian news laate hain. So, let's go.

0:45First, good news for The Chosen fans. The final season, Season 7, is fully funded. That's 78 million dollars, and it came from more than 86,000 normal people in 175 countries. Not one big company, normal people like you and me. So, now that the money is done, what next? Translation. They want The Chosen in 600 languages. Abhi tak 175 languages ho chuki hain. And here's the best part. We at 5Talents actually sat down and counted the list. 42 of those languages are from India. Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi are already fully dubbed. And then there are languages like Sora, Varli, Zeme Naga, Mizo, Tulu, Bodo.

1:37Honestly, kuch naam toh maine pehli baar hi padha hai. No company makes money by translating a TV show into Sora. They are doing it anyway, so that someone in a small village can watch Jesus' story in their own mother tongue. And a fun fact. Last month, The Chosen app had more users outside America than inside America. And India is one of the biggest reasons. Matlab hum log chupke chupke binge-watch kar lete hain. India mein Season 1–5 Netflix pe hai, aur The Chosen app pe bhi free hai. Season 6 bhi app pe aayega, spring 2027 mein.

2:20Next. Do you have the Bible App on your phone? Every single day, about 1 crore 85 lakh people open it. That's more than the population of some countries. And guess what? What was searched the most this year is Psalm 91. The psalm about God being our shelter, our safe place. Along with that, people searched words like anxiety, hope and healing. Think about it. Nobody types something in a search box to show off. Hum wohi search karte hain jiski humein sach mein zaroorat hoti hai. Aur duniya ko abhi peace chahiye. Main honestly bataun? My most searched thing is "coffee near me". Lekin theek hai, hum improve kar rahe hain.

3:05And here is the challenge. November is Global Bible Month. 30 days, open your Bible every day. App se ho ya ghar wali Bible se, dono chalega. 30 days of gym is hard. 30 days of Bible, no protein shake needed. Just open your Bible, 30 days. That's the challenge.

3:29Now, a story from our own North-East. In Aizawl, Mizoram, there's a lady called Mrs Lalthianghlimi. Sorry, it's quite long, difficult to pronounce. She has copied the entire Bible, Genesis to Revelation, by hand, in the Mizo language. Not once, 13 times. It's amazing. How can someone write it 13 times in her own handwriting? Her first Bible took 422 days, more than a year. And then she got that number printed in gold on the cover. Nobody asked her to. She just kept her own score. Now she finishes one in under 200 days. There's a photo of her desk, and next to her feet, a big pile of empty pens. Hundreds of them.

4:21Mujhe toh WhatsApp pe good morning type karne mein thakaan ho jaati hai. Before she started, she prayed one simple prayer: God, give strength to my eyes, my arms, my hands, so that I can write without mistakes. She didn't ask for a shortcut. She asked for strength to keep going. That's inspiring, my friend.

4:45Okay, quick test. Take out your Bible and open any page. The shape of every letter, the space between these lines, all that was designed by someone. And for a huge number of Bibles around the world, that someone was Klaus Krogh, a designer from Denmark. You have read his work for years, but you have never seen his name. He passed away last month at 74 years of age. His job was actually very tricky. A Bible is a very long book, about 8 lakh words. If the letters are big, the Bible becomes as heavy as a brick. If they are small, you can't read it. So he spent 40 years solving that one problem.

5:35Then one day, a lady asked him: can you make a Bible for people with dyslexia? People who have difficulty in reading and writing, people who find b and d the same. He worked with Cambridge University researchers for years and made a new font called Grace. And here is the beautiful part. Normally, his company sold each font to one publisher, and that's where the money was. But Grace, he made it free for people to use personally. He said helping people read was more important than making the last dollar. So next time you read your Bible, say thank you to that font. Seriously.

6:20Music lovers, this one's for you. Maverick City Music, the Grammy-winning gospel group behind songs like "Jireh" and "Promises", is coming to India. 12th December, in Shillong. Shillong is already called the rock capital of India. Now it will become the Rock of Ages capital. The concert is being organised by the Khasi Jaintia Presbyterian Assembly, a church that has been in those hills since 1841. And here's the best part. The money from the tickets will go to their schools, clinics and relief work. Normally, a church spends money to bring a big band. This church brings a band to run schools and hospitals. Tickets start around ₹1,000, online only. Prices are slightly different in different reports, so check the ticket page before you pay. And they haven't announced yet which singers are coming, so wait for that too. Hyderabad people, book a flight. Or at least put it in the wishlist.

7:23If you watch Instagram Reels, you have definitely heard a Forrest Frank song. He is one of the biggest Christian singers in the world right now. He used to be in a normal pop band, left it to make only Christian music, and his career became even bigger. This year his tour sold more than 4.5 lakh tickets in just 10 days. Stadiums full in 29 cities. But here is the surprising part. Every night, in the middle of the concert, the music stopped and a pastor came to the stage and preached the gospel to the whole stadium. Every single night. Sermon in the middle of the concert. And people used to stop and listen.

8:02One more thing. Last year he posted a video about Jesus coming back. It got more than 10 lakh likes, but he says he lost around 30,000 followers. He didn't delete it. He didn't change his message. Hum log 30 followers kam ho jaayein toh raat bhar neend nahi aati.

8:28Back to Hyderabad. In Episode 1, I told you about the Sound Barrier conference by The Mighty Dream. It happened on 31st October at Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, and I was there. More than 3,000 people came. But my favourite part was outside the stadium: a free job fair. More than 60 companies, like Tech Mahindra, Concentrix and IDBI Bank. Walk-in interviews, and the job seekers didn't pay a single rupee. And by 10 in the morning, around 50 people already had offer letters in their hands, before the conference even started. For the first time, people went home with an offer letter from a church event.

9:14One line from the stage stayed with me. What you hear, you start to believe. What you believe, you say. What you say, you do again and again. And what you do again and again, you become.

9:31And our last story. Greg Allgood was a scientist at Procter & Gamble, the big company that makes soaps and shampoos. His team made a small packet of powder. Put it in dirty brown water, stir it, filter it with a cloth, and in 20 minutes the water is clean enough to drink. The product worked. But the company couldn't make money from it, so they were planning to shut it down. Greg said: don't shut it down, run it as a non-profit. His boss said okay, but write down what success looks like in the next five years. Greg wrote his plan, and his boss rejected it. Reason? The dream was too small. So Greg wrote a bigger one: one billion litres of clean water. At that time, they had done only three crore litres. Today, more than 26 billion litres of clean water.

10:25His advice is just three words: find your pond. Meaning, find the place where your skill meets someone else's need. And that's actually the whole idea behind 5Talents. In the Bible, the man who buried his talent got the biggest scolding. Greg had a small packet of powder that everyone wanted to throw away. He did not bury it.

10:52So that's this week's 5Talents Rewind. Achhi khabar, bina boring hue. All the stories are on 5talentsmag.com, link is in the description. Comment and tell me which story you liked the most, and what is your pond. And this November, open your Bible every day, okay? See you next week. Bye bye!