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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Aadmi kaa agar iraadaa pakkaa ho to darwaaze to khud ba khud khul jaate hain

Film : Duniya
Year of release : 1984
Spoken by : Mohan Kumar (Dilip Kumar)
Spoken to : Balwant (Amrish Puri)

This revenge drama has Mohan breaking into Balwant's house. Balwant asks him the silly but inevitable question

"Tum andar kaise aaye"

And Mr Mohan Kumar says

"Aadmi kaa iraadaa pakkaa ho to darwaaze to khud ba khud khul jaate haiN"

"आदमी का इरादा पक्का हो तो दरवाज़े तो ख़ुद ब ख़ुद खुल जाते हैं"

A thought echoed, in a slightly romantic fashion, by Shri Shahrukh Khan in his Om Shanti Om, when he says

"इतनी शिद्दत से मैने तुम्हे पाने की कोशिश की है, कि हर ज़र्रे ने तुम्हे मुझसे मिलाने की साज़िश की है"

Personally, I too feel that if one really wants to do something, he generally does it. Simple line, but interesting usage. So you can use this line, when you break into someone's house.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Are itnaa solid aawaaz aur kisee kaa ho saktaa hai kyaa

Film : Amar Akbar Anthony
Year of release : 1977
Spoken by : Anthony Gonsalves (Amitabh Bachchan)
Spoken to : Bharati (Nirupa Roy)

Amar (Vinod Khanna) goes to Anthony's area and arrests him. A bruised and battered Anthony is now in the lock up. The blind flower seller Bharati (who is actually their mother) walks in to give flowers to Amar. She is hailed by Anthony. She reacts with

arre, ye to Anthony kee aawaaz hai
अरे, ये तो ऍंटनी की आवाज़ है

Anthony responds with a classic

Then what, arre itnaa solid aawaaz aur kisee kaa ho saktaa hai kyaa.
अरे इतना सॉलिड आवाज़ और किसी का हो सकता है क्या

Saturday, July 26, 2008

kahaaN aa paaoongee maiN din meN

Film : Aandhi
Year of release : 1975
Spoken by : Aarti Devi (Suchitra Sen)
Spoken to : JK (Sanjeev Kumar)

This is an all time classic. Aarti and JK are a separated couple, who meet 9 years later. Aarti is in town for a political rally and the hotel she is staying in belongs to JK. As they get over the initial hesitation due to the hiatus, they go for long after dinner walks. In one such situation, while the song "Tere binaa zindagii se koii" is being played in the background, JK explains to Aarti

Suno aarti, yeh jo phoolon kee belen nazar aatee hain naa, darasal yeh belen naheen hain, arabee mein aayaten likhee hain. Ise din ke waqt dekhnaa chaahiye, bilkul saaf nazar aatee hain,
din ke waqt yeh saaraa paanee se bharaa rehtaa hai. Din ke waqt jab ye…

सुनो आरती, ये जो फूलों की बेलें नज़र आती है ना, दरस्ल ये बेलें नहीं हैं, अरबी में आयतें लिखीं हैं. इसे दिन के वक़्त देखना चाहिये, बिल्कुल साफ़ नज़र आती हैं.
दिन के वक़्त ये सारा पानी से भरा रहता है. दिन के वक़्त जब ये...
Aarti interjects
Din kee baat kyon kar rahe ho, kahaan aa paaoongee main din mein.
दिन की बात क्यों कर रहे हो, कहां आ पाऊंगी मैं दिन में

A wistful JK responds

Yeh jo chaand hai naa, ise raat mein dekhnaa. Yeh din me nahee nikaltaa .
ये जो चांद है ना, इसे रात में देखना. ये दिन में नहीं निकलता
Aarti

Yeh to roz nikaltaa hogaa
ये तो रोज़ निकलता होगा

JK
Haan lekin beech mein amaavas aajaatee hai Vaise to amaavas pandrah din kee hotee hai, lekin is baar bahut lambee thee.
हां लेकिन बीच में अमावस आ जाती है. वैसे तो अमावस पन्द्रह दिन की होती है, लेकिन इस बार बहुत लम्बी थी

Aarti
Nau baras lambee thee naa?
नौ बरस लम्बी थी ना?

Then the song continues into the stanza "jee me aataa hai tere..."

This is one of my favourite lines (even though Suchitra Sen says it). All of us do find it hard to do a lot of things during the day. The holidays are spent sleeping indoors. So the daytime is so hard to get for leisure activities. So if anyone calls you anywhere during the day and you can't make it. Use this line

कहां आ पाऊंगी मैं दिन में

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Ghis ghis ke gold banaane kee koshish kar rahaa hooN

Film : Chak De India
Year of release : 2007
Spoken by : Kabir Khan (Shahrukh Khan)
Spoken to : Krishna ji (Vibha Chibber)

While interacting with his assistant coach Krishna, Kabir is holding his silver medal and rubbing it. She asks him

Sir, yeh to aapkaa silver medal hai naa? aap iske saath kyaa kar rahe haiN

He responds

Ghis ghis ke gold banaane kee koshish kar rahaa hooN, kal ko agar chor bazaar meN bechnaa paDe to kam az kam qeemat to achchhee milegee
घिस घिस के गोल्ड बनाने की कोशिश कर रहा हूं, कल को अगर चोर बाज़ार मे बेचना पडे तो कम अज़ कम क़ीमत तो अच्छी मिलेगी

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

meree scooter kee pichhlee seat tumhe, bahut chhoTee maaloom hone lagee hai

Film : Rang Birangi
Year of release : 1983
Spoken by : Jeet (Farooque Sheikh)
Spoken to : Anita (Deepti Naval)

Anita's boss (Amol Palekar), in a bid to perk up his married life, starts romancing her. Her fiance Jeet, who is a professor in a college, routinely picks her up after office on his Lambretta scooter. On a couple of such occasions, he finds her driving off in the evening in her boss' car. On their next meeting, Anita finds him slightly taciturn. She asks him the reason. He says

Anita, mujhe aajkal aisaa lagtaa hai, meree scooter kee pichhlee seat tumhe, bahut chhoTee maaloom hone lagee hai.
अनीता...मुझे आजकल ऐसा लगता है...मेरी स्कूटर की पिछली सीट तुम्हे...बहुत छोटी मालूम होने लगी है

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Yeh round and round jitnaa bhee bole to, center meN to baat wohee rahegee naa

Film : Munnabhai MBBS
Year of release : 2003
Spoken by : Murli Prasad ‘Munna’ Sharma (Sanjay Dutt)
Spoken to : Suman 'Chinky' Asthana (Gracy Singh)

Munna is leaving the campus, as he feels disillusioned after having met (who he thinks) 'Chinky'. As he is leaving, Suman (the real Chinky) stops him and says their last chat was incomplete. Munna says

Dekho tumko apun ke liye koi feelings nahee hai. Yeh round and round jitnaa bhee bole to, center me to baat wohi rahegee naa

देखो तुमको अपुन के लिये कोई फ़ीलिंग्ज़ नहीं है. ये राउंड ऍंड राउंड जितना भी बोले तो, सॅंटर में तो बात वोही रहेगी ना

Friday, July 18, 2008

Jawaanii aur sharaafat meN kashmakash ho rahee hai

Film : Tawaif
Year of release : 1985
Spoken by : Sultaanaa (Rati Agnihotri)
Spoken to : Daud Khan Yusufzai (Rishi Kapoor)

The featured line is from another BR Chopra film which came two decades later than the earlier featured line. Sultaanaa has been forcibly left in Daud's house by the local don (Kader Khan). Since he cannot get her out of his house, he is forced to tell neighbours that she is his wife. Sultaanaa is a 'tawaif' (a nautch girl) and is not used to men being polite to her. She finds the situation amusing and starts flirting with Daud. Daud tries to put up a curtain in the middle of the room - so that he can make a temporary 2 bedroom apartment. He sleeps in one portion on the floor - while Sultaanaa sleeps in the other portion on the bed. A flirtatious Sultaanaa, creeps through the curtain, and sees that Daud has not slept yet. She asks him why he is unable to sleep. Daud tries to ignore the question, but Sultaanaa persists with a provocative follow up question

jawaanii au sharaafat meN kashmakash ho rahee hai
जवानी और शराफ़त में कशमकश हो रही है