The Hindi translation tool from Google

I wanted to add the Hindi translation option to my blog. So that people who preferred reading it in Hindi could do so. I was happy to find that Google had a translation tool that automatically allowed you to translate pages. I was curious to find how it would work. Well here is a link to the translation of this blog.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedobe.blogspot.com&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=en&tl=hi

In case the link does not work, please go to this site

http://translate.google.com/translate_t

Enter the following link in the translate web page box

http://medobe.blogspot.com

Choose English as the source language and Hindi as the target language. Enjoy the results.

Main anaar khaa rahaa hooN to aap mujhe anaaRee to nahee samajh rahe

This is a good line from the 2008 movie Race. The film is of course a blatant copy from Roland Joffe’s 1998 film noir Goodbye Lover. But then Abbas Mustan have constructed their entire career with what we call DVD remakes. Coming back to the line, the movie is all about claiming insurance money. The detective Robert D’Costa a.k.a. RD (Anil Kapoor) refers to the 50 million USD (roughly Rs 200 crores) insurance money while interrogating Rajeev Singh (Akshay Khanna) younger brother of the deceased Ranveer Singh (Saif Ali Khan).. Rajeev responds by saying that the policy had been taken out a long time ago and he doesn’t even remember it. It is indeed a facetious remark to make. You do not ‘forget’ about the existence of a Rs 200 crore insurance policy.

RD has this habit of eating fruit all the time. When he asks Rajeev about the insurance policy, he is eating a pomegranate (anaar). He pauses and remarks

main anaar khaa rahaa hooN to aap mujhe anaaRee to nahee samajh rahe

मैं अनार खा रहा हूं तो आप मुझे अनाड़ी तो नहीं समझ रहे
This line can be used whenever someone is trying to pull a fast one on you. It becomes even more effective if you are actually eating a pomegranate. But that is not likely to happen so regularly. Nonetheless, whenever I have a pomegranate next time, I am going to think of this line. It is like anyone who has a shower behind shower curtains is going to remember the Psycho scene.

Aaj kal biscuit ko bhee Parle jee kehte haiN

Time for that motor mouth Nana Patekar to make his debut on this blog.

I come across a lot of people who when talking to young girls routinely make statements like

"jee lagaane kee koee zaroorat nahee hai aap mujhe sirf 'ravi' keh saktee haiN".

They never make such statements when talking with men. A very good line to use in such a situation is featured in this post. This is from the 2008 movie Welcome. Uday Shetty (Nana Patekar) is a don who is trying to get his sister Sanjana (Katrina Kaif) married. But his reputation always precedes him and strikes a telling blow to the prospective alliance. Dr Ghunghroo (Paresh Rawal) has been threatened by another goon Majnu (Anil Kapoor) who has asked him for Rs 5 crores as protection money or haftaa. He goes to Uday Shetty for succour. Uday immediately sends for Majnu and the moment Majnu arrives, Uday chastises him for having harassed Dr Ghunghroo.

Uday: Ghunghroo jee mere...

Dr Ghunghroo: jee??...jee mat kahiye

Uday: arre aise kaise. aajkal biskuT ko bhee Parle jee kehte hain... aap to itne nek haiN

So when faced with any situation as mentioned earlier, or in any situation where you are facing faux respect, you can use this line.

अरे ऐसे कैसे ...आजकल बिस्कुट को भी पार्ले जी कहते हैं ... आप तो इतने नेक हैं

Angrezii meN bhee jhooTh boltaa hai koee

This is a beautiful line from the movie The Blue Umbrella (2005). Vishal Bharadwaj has two pets – one is Shakespeare and the other are kids. So in between his Macbethian an Othellesque outings he does the Makdees and the Blue Umbrellas. The film is pretty much a simple film. I would say a tele serial with a few songs woven in. But I found this sparkling line in that film

अंग्रेज़ी में भी झूठ बोलता है कोई?
It is actually the opening scene of the film, where NandKishore Khatri (Pankaj Kapoor) – the proprietor of Khatri Tea Stall – is shown listening to a recorded fortune telling session. The person running the contraption - the robot owner (Deepak Dobriyal) tells Nandkishore (as he does not understand a word of English) that the tape is saying that he is going to be as rich as Bill Gates – a billionaire. He says

अरे खज़ाना मिलने वाला है तुझे
Nandkishore says

ये बोला इसने?
The Robot owner retorts

हां और वो भी अंग्रेज़ी में. अंग्रेज़ी में भी झूठ बोलता है कोई?
Fantastic line. Given that the greatest lies in this country are probably crafted and delivered in English. But that is more due to the fact that it has become the language of commerce in India and veracity and commerce don’t go hand in hand. Nonetheless, whenever you want to convince someone – deliver your pitch in English and add for effect
अंग्रेज़ी में भी झूठ बोलता है कोई?

KaanToN ko murjhaane kaa Khauf nahee hotaa

Mughal-e-Aazam once more. I think this film is amazing. No wonder it took 20 years in the making. This line comes after the famous qawwali - Teri mehfil mein qismat aazmaa ke hum bhee dekhenge. This is actually played out as a competition between Bahar (Nigar Sultana) and Anarkali (Madhubala). Finally when it is time to judge - Salim (Dilip Kumar) hands over the petals of the rose to Bahaar and the thorns to Anarkali. She comes up with this beautiful line

कांटों को मुर्झाने का ख़ौफ़ नहीं होता

kaanToN ko murjhaane kaa Khauf naheeN hotaa

So whenever you are in a situation of despair, you could have nothing more to lose. Something like that famous joke "shani teraa kyaa bigaaD legaa". Use this line.

JaaT maraa tab jaaniye jab terahvee ho jaaye

This is a quote from an unlikely source. Kamalahaasan keeps making movies in which he has strange get ups. Right from the dwarf in Appu Raja to the women in Chaachi 420 to the old man in Hindustani. And you have to hand it to him. He is the only major star in Indian cinema, who takes his make up seriously. He is currently working on a film called Dashaavataaram where he will play 10 roles. But in the year 2001 he came out with a movie called AaLavandaan (आळवन्दान ஆளவந்தான்) where he played a double role of an army officer and his deranged long lost twin brother (Abhay Kumar). It was also simultaneously released in Hindi as Abhay. The Abhay Kumar character had a bald pate, grotesque tattoos, dangerous dagger with serrated edges and a pronounced preference for the soliloquy. In one such soliloquy - he rants and narrates a long poem. But the last line of the poem is the line featured here

जाट मरा तब जानिये जब तेरहवी हो जाए

JaaT maraa tab jaaniye jab terahvee ho jaaye

Now this is not a blog on sociology and casteism - so the line has to be understood in that spirit. This is of course not a film dialogue in itself - it is a proverb. But it is a less known proverb and hence I am featuring it here. So whenever you are beaten in a game or at work, but believe you can bounce back. Or if you see someone who has that capability you can use this line. For the eternal never say die spirit - not even when you are dead. तेरहवी of course is a reference to the obsequies that are held on the 13th day after death in India. So technically you would have been dead for thirteen days on your terahvee or tervee as some people call it.

PaanDavoN waalee shart mat lagaaiye

In ChakDe India (2007), there is a scene when Kabir Khan (Shahrukh Khan) challenges the Hockey federation to a match between the men's and women's hockey team. The background is that the federation has just dropped the bombshell that due to funds shortage - only one team could go to the World Cup. And since the women's team were no hopers - they would obviously be left out. That's when a desperate coach Kabir throws this challenge. The hockey federation member Tripathi (Anjan Srivastav) sniggers and says

पाण्डवों वाली शर्त मत लगाइये - चीर हरण न हो जाये

Of course the reference is to Mahabharat and the game of dice which ended in the Pandavs losing everything - even their wife Draupadi who was molested in full public view. So Tripathi is referring to that instance. But the line is good. You can use it metaphorically whenever you think that the challenge or bet that is being accepted by a person, would lead to his ruin. You could say (with or without a snigger)

PaanDavoN waalee shart mat lagaaiye

पाण्डवों वाली शर्त मत लगाइये