Each one of us loves Bollywood for various reasons, be it the movies, songs, dances or the sheer glamour attached to it. Some people are absolute Bollywood maniacs. Remembering situational filmi dialogues gets into their reflexes and living the movie characters and enacting dialogues sometimes becomes an unconscious and effortless action.
One such maniac named Amit and I would often get into situations where our regular conversation would unconsciously become a collage of filmi dialogues from different movies. We had mastered the art of comfortably chipping in these dialogues in apt situations :). Such was the influence that even Farooq (who was our room mate and hitherto wasn’t “filmi” enough) got inspired and one day delivered a situational dialogue that had us ROTFLOL. It was the fabricated version of "क्रोध को पालना सीख, बेटा काशी" from the movie- “Ghatak” (the actual words Farooq said and the situation is censored :)).
Bollywood mania runs to the bone in some extraordinary human beings- they can form a filmi stance even in serious practical situations. I’ve heard out raged people saying “अगर तुमने माँ का दूध पिया है तो...”, or an overly romantic one saying – “We share a very good Chemistry among us…”. Some arrogant ones say- “अपना इस्तीफा मैं जेब में लिए घूमता हूँ”, while some overly hurt ones use- “मैं तुम्हे मरते दम तक माफ़ नहीं करूँगा / करुँगी” :D. That is simply hillarious.
A normal Software engineer comes across various situations in his professional day when he can comfortably chip in some really cool movie dialogues.
Imagine Mr. X is a software engineer with Cabbage Software Pvt. Ltd, Pest Avenue- Nathaninagar. A slightly arrogant (and absolutely “Filmi”) Mr. X’s typical day would begin by checking his corporate email. He finds a list of bugs from the tester along with a filmi comment: “तुम एक fix दोगे, तो हम 4 bugs देंगे..” (source: Sholay).
Slightly annoyed over the comment, X rushes to the conference room to attend the SCRUM stand up meeting. When the tester starts boasting of and highlighting the high bug count, the filmy Mr. X reacts- "तू सिर्फ अपनी गिनती (bug count) बढ़ा रहा है". (Source: Ab Tak Chhappan). Out of excitement, he accepts the challenge to fix all bugs in a day, and makes a filmi statement- “एक बार जो मैंने commitment कर दी, फिर तो मैं खुद की भी नहीं सुनता...” (source: Wanted).
X dons his thinking cap and starts working. A colleague approaches Mr. X for a smoke, and compels him to join- “सुट्टा मारा करो मियां, coding तो चलता रहता है...” (source: Maqbool).
By lunch time, X has fixed all the bugs. This is his time to serve against the tester, and he makes sure he scores an ace through- “यह लो- तुम्हारा एक एक bug, मेरे दो दो fix, bug 1, fix 2” (source: Andaz Apna Apna).
Since X has taken the matter personally, tester runs a smoke test and rejects the build. DM calls Mr. X in his cabin and demands an explanation, X replies- “मुझे जो सही लगता है मैं करता हूँ, फिर वो चाहे test case के खिलाफ हो, project plan के खिलाफ हो, या फिर original requirements के ही खिलाफ हो...” (source: Sarkar). DM is in no mood of entertaining this “नौटंकी”, and Mr. X gets the music. Frustrated he comes out saying- “कभी tester तो कभी manager, हम कोई मंदिर का घंटा हैं के कोई भी आता है और बजा जाता है...” (source: Hungama)
He starts working again and gets irritated when the watch strikes 9. It’s again a longer day for him, he gets irritated and complains- “Deadline पे deadline, deadline पे deadline मिलती है, बस appraisal कभी नहीं मिलता...” (source: Damini). Finally he starts to wind up the day.
After a tough day it’s his last time to face the music- this time from his wife. She gets him black and blue (verbal only), but that too compels him to end his day in a filmi way- “हे भगवान…यह पत्नी है के पनौती है ? ” (source: Hungama).
After all this do I realize- how much Bollywood has penetrated in our life. Bollywood truly has a say, or should I say- a “literal say” in our everyday life, don’t you feel so? :).
