Monday, September 18, 2006
F..F..F..Fearr
Your look is the alien from Koi Mil Gaya
Your body is a 90s Tam heroine
You do yes or do no
You are a Mallu Christian
(Heh. The rants don’t seem so bad now, do they?)
Update: For many more creative multi-lingual cryptic clues, please to see the commentspace of this post. Or catch them compiled together here. But remember — have some hair-regeneration product ready first.
Are mindblowing…
So, are you giving me clues for casting in our film? I am on it, madam… Will send you photographs soon for initial screening.
Monday, September 18, 2006 @ 6:24 PM
Wow…! Hell hath no fury…like Megha scorned! :)
Monday, September 18, 2006 @ 7:26 PM
[Fleiger] Pliss to send photos first. We will think of short-list by then. Am unable to decide if a fresh new face is better or a familiar bankable one will do the trick.
[qs.gemini] Er? Scorned? You missed the song completely, it seems! Tsk tsk.
Monday, September 18, 2006 @ 7:50 PM
Sure… I just recruited Jaadoo as my casting agent. Will pass on the photos as he sends.
Monday, September 18, 2006 @ 8:12 PM
Sam today nay people have understood…
NASA , MJ … they are a lady.
(Doan blame me, she started it).
:)
Icy settee horse, gee, saw never anywheres
Monday, September 18, 2006 @ 8:30 PM
AAAAAAHHHHH! Too much. Mmmmmmmeghaa!
Monday, September 18, 2006 @ 8:45 PM
:( Obviously, I did… now I am one of those who you have to explain the jokes to…pathetic! :((
Monday, September 18, 2006 @ 9:26 PM
[Fleiger] Ah cool! Just make sure he doesn’t do the weird one-finger-lighting-up type stuff during auditions?
[UnLeashed] Aayiye aayiye, aap hi ka intezaar thha .. :)
So first .. samajhne waale samajh gaye, na samjhe vo anaari hain. (Didn’t you already mutilate this song in the past?) And please. Just because you have a thing for Shahrukh doesn’t mean you have to pick aisi deewaangee dekhi nahin kahin with King Khan twirling ike a ballerina while a wide-eyed DBharati looks on adoringly, do you?
[anantha] Ayyo? What happened? *looks around innocently*
[qs.gemini] Pathetic only. It is a song translation, baba. Try try :)
Monday, September 18, 2006 @ 10:06 PM
Don’t worry… I will tell him to get good natured martian models for the role. And will make sure he tells them not to bite the hero ;) (Now decipher that…)
Monday, September 18, 2006 @ 10:49 PM
Oh just our suffer, one Sara waitings
Sun sad comings, is giving man zeal of loves.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 @ 12:52 AM
[Fleiger] Not to bite hero? Um? Explain?
[Kiski Tea] Ae mere humsafar, ik zara intezaar
sun sadaayen de rahin hain, manzil pyaar ki
You insult us terribly. Tsk tsk.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 @ 1:02 AM
LOL!
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 @ 3:43 AM
y u scaring us away…. if u dont want us to visit your blog, do tell us upfront… dont scare us by (implicitly) asking us to visualise THAT…
:(
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 @ 4:29 AM
Life cut from your bengali veena
Is not a stylish cry
not a crying sardar twice
ps. been a lurker all these days - thoroughly enjoyed your pun & wit.. Just when I thought I could resist from commenting, you pulled me into it!
pps. ceTTu mastuga ekkinru gani, digurri digurri :P
ppps. there is another filmi reference in this comment ;)
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 @ 4:36 AM
B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B BRILLIANT… simply B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B BRILLIANT…
(blame our teachers for blessing us with negative IQ)
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 @ 5:27 AM
Think in context of your song… That’s all the hint you need. (And maybe a bit of marathi)
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 @ 7:57 AM
Yay…got it! phew…what I didn’t know was that she is a tam heroine…!!!! :D Good one, indeed… and phew again! :D
You are great…mmmmmmmegha! :)
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 @ 6:14 PM
tere bina zindagi se koi…
shikva nahi..sikh-va (lol) nahi…
oh blimey..i almost fell off my chair yodelling with laughter (yep, thats my maidenly gurgle).
megha, hats off to u. i chanced on ur blog just 3 days ago - and its been haha time ever since. Urs is t one blog where i went up and read t archives as well (ur fascinaton with chiru had me chortling so hard t neighbours got scared!) . n i even read up t comments in t archives (which i also an indicator to how little work i have been having these few days). mega-amazing this..(now i m gushing so i stop!)
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 9:15 AM
[perspective inc] Hee hee :)
[Rumpy] Aha! Bulb finally chamak hi gaya! Thankoo thankoo! :)
[deitadi] This is what happens when I don’t reply soon enough. Someone else gets to it first :) But seriously, much too much that was! Chic waa and Sikh waa, it seems. Trés cool! But should be thrice, no? And life ‘cut’? You brought in Gult to add a layer of complexity even? Wah wah. (Not to be confused with waa waa which, as you say, fashionable surds prefer.)
ps .. Heh heh. As they say - you can run but you cannot hide.
pps .. Ayyo? Kaani digute, Chettu Kinda Pleader ayye chances unnayi kadaa?
ppps .. Argh! Wonder what it be? A dialogue? Tell and put out of misery pliss.
[Fleiger] Ah gotcha! Juhi Chawla, of course! Nice :)
[qs.gemini] Yay, she got it! Phew :)
[rashmi] Heh heh. Yodelling with laughter and falling off one’s chair is the recommended behavior for all ladylike readers of this blog. Plus it’s always good to keep the neighbors wary of you, I always say. Never know when it can come in handy. But seriously, much glad that you like! :) Welcome to the madhouse that is this blog and I hope you will join in on the fun more often!
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 11:07 AM
Let me try one:
Tam heroine see, see your Andre Agassi hair style is getting spoilt.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 3:06 PM
reminds me of this raj kumar song.. “if you come today girl.. it’s too early.. if u come tomorrow.. its too late”.. tic tic tic ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOy5mF-xoTA
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 5:34 PM
[KG] Erm? Clue pliss? Not too well versed with Tam cinema, by the way. Unless it is the same Tam heroine that we referred to.
[Tandy] Now now. My nonsensical translation is nothing compared to the classic that is ‘Ewww peek tha taaaaime .. tik tik tik tik tik tik .. door-leeeeeng!’ A real phillum song with real lyrics, picturized in a real movie and all. Entirely in a league of its own, it is.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 6:51 PM
Amma dekh, haan dekh, tera munda bigda jaaye
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 7:06 PM
[Megha] Surely you’ve heard of Amma, no?
[Munday Blues] Thank you!
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 7:45 PM
Oh good.. you got that. After I wrote it, I started wondering whether I might have made it too language specific…
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 8:02 PM
Ham was Woe was and Sam on colourful, got no ?
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 9:02 PM
I am not in my own public transport.
Deal is somewhere and I am somwhere.
Coin a stop heart’s Hindi serial
The pickle is gone :(
ah ah aaa haaa aah
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 9:17 PM
[Yanni^3] Hum the woh thee aur sama rangeen, samajh gaye naa
This is fun!!
1. Saif Ali Khan cult classic locked in less ray and tea be gets lost.
2. Three Tam eggs and I, we meet like this
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 9:18 PM
YIKES!!!!!!! :D
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 9:46 PM
[Munday Blues] Aha!
[KG] Haan haan. It seems most obvious now, of course. But bulb didn’t chamkofy then, na.
[Fleiger] It was a bit language specific, but fortunately my Marathi skills are better than I expected them to be :)
[Yanni & MisGuide] Got, but not telling. Letting other readers guess them first. First one is toooo easy!
[raj da 2nd] Hee hee! :)
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 10:09 PM
[KG] Hum tum ik kamre mein band ho and ek main aur ek tu
Tam eggs, it seems. Egg, main, aur egg two = Three eggs + I. Classic! Brilliant it was :)
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 @ 10:23 PM
[Megha] Thank you. :-D
Last one, I promise.
Circuit’s debut is now a level in a hierarchy.
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 12:33 AM
[Megha] tanku, tanku.. side effects of spending way too much time at your blog ;) kuch toh bhi asar honga-eech honga
yep, my bad - its thrice :) The RD fan in you wont let such a thing go un-noticed eh?
are, aTla teesi pArEstarEndi bhai vakeel sAb lani.. ee dEsam la kOllu, mEkalanu nammukune badalu bangAru guDlu peTTe bAtu dorkinaTTe kada.. kya bolthei?
bAtu guDlu reminds me of this song though
bangAru bAtu guDDu
bandAru tokkuDu laDDu
sayyanavE, nA sarasaku rAve
chakkera chilaka kikkuru manaka pakkaku vastE cerustAne oDDu
gADida guDDu!
I ain’t making this up, Promise! or Oral-B if you chose so.
If you havent had the (mis)fortune of listening to this song before, here is a link -
http://www.dishant.com/album/Vetagaadu-(1979).html
second one in the list.
Now that I have shared it - feels cathartic already :)
The filmi reference I mentioned - latter part the first of the ps’ is a dialogue from The Godfather - Part III :)
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 1:33 AM
[KG]/[Megha]: “Tam heroine” as a clue for Amma would not be accepted because it is a shady clue! She got the nick Amma about 20 years after she stopped acting in movies, when she got into politics!! Baah!
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 9:18 AM
> Your body is a 90s Tam heroine
[To himself: How does she know?]
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 9:19 AM
Tere mere sapne ab ek ‘rung’ hai…!
Grooaaan..*tummy ache* u guys have got me hooked. I not cant listen to a propah hind song without bursting into guffaws.
All this is putting me into nostalgia mode, recapping this inane game i played with my sis years ago. We wud quiz on on actors’ names eg. Which actress (accepted term then) is hermaphrodite? - Mahima Chaudhary (because she has a ‘HIM’ in her…maHIMa) [if any of her fans still survive and are reading this, no offence intended]. Yup, twas awful most of the times, but gud tp on a lazy evening
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 9:42 AM
[anantha] Yeah, it’s a shady clue, isn’t it?
[Anonymous] Congratulations, you got it.
Hermaphrodite Mahima, jeez!!
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 10:17 AM
[KG] Heh :)
[deitaDi] Okay, I have to ask - Who are you? First Ilayaraaja. Then RD. And now to top it all, golden ducky egg? A song that I thought only I knew about? (Of course I believe your laung ke tel waala Promise. Used to hear the song in the mornings on the radio while hurriedly drinking my Horlicks and dusting off the toast crumbs, before rushing to catch the school bus. Visions of a bright and shiny ducky egg are enough to drive away any Monday morning blues!) But again - who are you? Should I be practicing my slo-mo running for a separated at Kumbh Mela type moment or something? :)
ps .. That vakeel saab Ladies Tailor gaaru. Is he any less than a kodi or a meka, I say?
[Anantha] I am only going to defend the clues I actually came up with :) (Well, not even those, really.)
[Begumpetter] *cackle* It’s the Begum connection, what to do. Them and their well-rounded personalities, as you know.
[Anon/Rashmi] Yay! So happy that all Hindi movie songs have been destroyed for you! That is what we strive to achieve here! :) And hermaphrodite? Eeeesh! Ugh. Sigh. But I likey! Here’s one more - which pop artist is also a bird?
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 1:36 PM
Even shadier clue. (Yeah, I promised. So what???) :
What’s Tam Dum? Take my John.
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 1:59 PM
Gentle reminder:
MisGuide’s song is still waiting to be answered -
I am not in my own public transport.
Deal is somewhere and I am somwhere.
Coin a stop heart’s Hindi serial
The pickle is gone :(
ah ah aaa haaa aah
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 2:28 PM
Oh, I thought someone got it.
apne hi “bus” me nahi mai
“Deal” hai kahi toh hu kahi mai
roko na “koi” dil ki “udaan” ko
“dil” vo chalaa
MisGuide mixed up the antaras’s though :)
I thought the clue was brilliant, no?
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 2:46 PM
Amazing clue.
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 3:01 PM
Yes, despite mixed up antaras, it was awesome! So here’s my variation -
I am not in my own public transport
Deal is somewhere and I am somwhere
Wonder what John found
My life laughed and said
ah ah aaa haaa aah
Speaking of John, here’s one I recently attempted on Heh Heh’s blog -
What dairy product is my heart, my love ..
I dedicate my loo itself to you!
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 3:09 PM
dil kya “cheese” hai jaanam
apni jaan tere naam karta hai!
Hilarious! :)
too easy though :P
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 3:12 PM
True true, way to easy. To be fair, it wasn’t meant to be a puzzle there. Just an articulation of the feelings that Ronit Roy (and his dancing) inspired in me :)
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 3:19 PM
About the ducky song - I used to listen to that in the same context too! :) I feel the kumbh mela moment approaching too :P but seriously, purely coincidental… I dont have a friend/acquintance in the Boston area as whacky as you ;)
so you like Ilayaraja’s music too eh? nice to know :)
about the Ladies Tailor and CKP references, u mean RP?
ps. I hope you got the “kOllu” reference :)
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 3:52 PM
[deitaDi] (Starting to wonder about the funda behind the name.) Okie, I shall put off the KMM for now, but shall practice the slo-mo for a just-in-case scenario. One never knows.
Oh yes yes, very much a Raja fan. More of a Raja from the 80s and early 90s fan, to be precise (which includes CKP and LT even!) That’s when I discovered him and I think I’m stuck in a time warp when it comes to his music. Give me my Geetaanjali, my Seetaakokachilukaa and my Anveshanaa and I am a happy camper. Guess one needed them to counter the golden duck eggs and jeans-pants, no? (You got the latter song reference, surely?)
ps .. Yes yes, RP only. That fine bushy specimen. But no, did not get reference. Figured it to be a movie dialogue. Sounded Rao Gopal Rao-ish, but I must be confused. Help?
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 4:37 PM
woo! too much fun going on here! Let me jump into the party! Here goes mine
Hint: Its a kind of carp fish. And all the hate mail can go to the owner of this blog!
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 7:12 PM
[KG] I have a feeling it is
“dil cheez kya hai,
aap meri jaan leejiye”
not able to make the connection though :)
[Megha] For the birdy pop star, could you narrow down the domain? dEsi ya vidEsi?
Tou’che for the Ilayaraja remark! I guess we started discovering him at around the same time(!) - His music was pure magic back then.
Did you listen to “Shiva 2006″ ? If you did - thoughts?
Jeans-pants? Yamaleela? But it happened much later than the ducky egg song, so methinks thats not the right one. Another clue? :)
The “kOllu” reference - code(software) ~ kODi ~ kOllu :)
ps. How do I format my comments? I am totally ignorant of all the HTML/JavaScript fundas :)
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 8:13 PM
[deitaDi] Dum is a remake of the Tamil movie Dil. Sorry, I was bored.
[Megha] One hopes sincerely that the birdy pop star isn’t S. Crow.
[gvenum] One is tempted to guess Meena even if one has no idea what the clue means.
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 9:15 PM
[KG] No worries :)
aah.. S.Crow - makes sense.
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 9:35 PM
[deitaDi] Desi. And to clarify, not pure pop. But desi-pop gets branded under the general umbrella of pop, so I went with pop :) Not heard Shiva yet. Anantha has asked that I hear too, but not yet done. Will hear and tell. And jeans-pant is a much more recent early-90s event. Nenu jeans-pantu ni veskosthe .. ring a bell? And groan on kodi!
[KG] No not Crow. Desi. See above. And ayyo! That’s terrible. First there’s a Tam movie called Dum, so that’s a confusing reference. Tam Dum is Tam Dum, you know. Secondly you cannot leave out a key word like cheez. Cheese. Ricotta. Dairy product. Please. It is the best part about translations like these!
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 11:28 PM
My huge huge sea friend angle chief left behind
From Jai my dreams of waste
Gel Zeenat yours too, of smooches to Nasser
A name like Mika, tube pine for
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 11:36 PM
[InSashayable] Brilliant! Smooches to Kundera though, it should be :)
Thursday, September 21, 2006 @ 11:39 PM
[Megha] inkA chinching sAr
[InSashayable] too much, I say! :)
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 12:29 AM
mary kiran = mallu christian?
took me a while to figure that out :-|
Absolutely hilarious!
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 3:22 AM
[deitaDi] Chinchofy chinchofy. After all that chinching, it is little wonder that there’s only shreds of our sanity left :)
[Sudha] Mary Kiran. Seems like a name a Mallu Christian would have, no? And for the record, I know a Mallu Christian by that name, hence the thought :) *sheepishly looks around for an exit*
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 7:55 AM
[InSashayable] Gotcha..but wont play t spoiler. btw, ‘Gel Zeenat’ was spiffing beaut - took me quite some time to get that!
[Megha] :) Hans Raj Hans (*exit singing ‘bachpan ke din bhi kya din the’*)
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 8:22 AM
oops…forgot again to write my name above!
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 8:23 AM
[gvenum] koi haseena jab rooth jaati hai to…?
verrrry obscure clue that!had to check with Wiki…
koi: ornamental domesticated varieties of the common carp [courtesy Wikipedia]
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 8:39 AM
[Rashmi]
Ahaa ! Great! you got it right! One of my colleague was mentioning about that fish sometime back!
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 9:36 AM
Yay !!! I got the big big huge sea !!!
P.S My story - Regular Reader-turned-commenter…equally suffering with the multiple personality disorder but we are only 13 as of now and all of them are evil.
Btw ‘deithadi’ is related to a ritual/offering/enunciation to ‘Pochamma’ ammavaru.
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 11:51 AM
[Rashmi/gvenum] I got to Koi (thanks to Live search :P) but “fish having eena” threw me off.. I was stuck at “koeena” :) Obscure indeed!
[Megha] merse nai horaa.. aap-eech boldiyo usthaad
[Mthyili] party!!! :P
13 A, chAlA? and yeah, I can vouch for the evil part ;)
To clarify - deitaDi is a very hyderabadi word.. Although it originated with Pochamma rituals. its general usage means “wholeheartedly” ~ “without holding anything back”
kaDupu noppi taggindA? :P
ps. Goes without saying, we know each other :)
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 12:56 PM
Mere “big”i “big”i sea “pal”kon mein reh gaye
“Jai”se mere sapney bikharke …
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 3:01 PM
[Rashmi] Arrey! Hans Raj Hans was not the one I had in mind, but that fits in perfectly too! Isn’t it nice when the same lousy PJ has multiple correct answers? Ah, the simple joys of life! (Pliss to see response to deitaDi for the answer I had in mind.)
[gvenum] Fishy clue, that was!
[Mythili] Yay! Another reader turned commenter! Another reader turned commenter! Much happiness at the abounding Gult women population :) (And droooool at the food you cook.) Nice nice. Ominous thirteen and all. Very 80s horror movie types. (Don’t tell me you spent many a Saturday afternoon with a bunch of shivering, nervous friends watching multiple viewings of Evil Dead and Omen, with the curtains tightly drawn? I know I did!) And enduku all evil-u? Of course Evil Two and Psycho Three out of my seventeen are very happy to hear that, but the good guys are all grumbling and whining, so just wondering.
[deitaDi] A gap in my education has been filled today thanks to you and [Mythili]. I’d never heard this Hyderabadi term before. *practices saying deitaDi in different ways .. deitaaDi .. deiiitadi .. deii-tuddy .. *
And here’s the much awaited answer -
Q: which desi pop artist is also a bird?
A: Baba Seagull
*runs away and hides under the table-u*
And what is this? Mythili and deitaDi know each other aa? Too much Yaadon Ki Baaraat moment only, this is. Or should I say Annadammula Anubandham seeing as this is the TANA convention? (Is there a female equivalent of this movie, at all? And why don’t they ever make female-siblings-separated-at-birth movies? Ooh, I feel a new blog post coming up on this matter.)
[Anon] Bingo! :)
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 3:04 PM
[deitaDi] I forgot to add - You wanted to do comment formatting? Okie, simple tutorial -
1. Surround the text you want to boldface with the <b> and </b> tags
2. Surround the text you want to italicize with the <i> and </i> tags
3. And for indentation, surround the text with the <blockquote> and </blockquote> tags.
There’s a comment quicktag plugin that I used to have in place to make life easier on you, that stopped working, so I disabled it. Will bring it back alive to save you the hassle of remembering all this mumbo-jumbo. Gives you a nice set of buttons on the top that you can click to format your text.
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 3:11 PM
I used obscure ones as you guys seem to be super smart in figuring out (masking the fact that I make lousy clues), you have to understand I am no master-cluester like InSashayable(bow to you) or Megha, so you have to bare with me.! Much appreciated!
Alrite I have 2 of them at a go now!
1) Leh gets strong wind in this life!
2) My Daughter-In-Law is a moon, You are a bar in Mumbai
door is next to Daughter-In-Law, sridevi told
The second is an easy one, else you would start ignoring my clues.
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 6:08 PM
[gvenum] We here, on this blog, follow a ‘we will support you in whatever lifestyle choices you make, as long as you don’t inflict them on us’ policy. So while we are all for the appreciation of the human body, please to not be baring it on this blog and more importantly, expecting us readers to bare with you. Thankoo muchly.
Heh heh :) Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Now for your clue - Got the second one! It should be Sridevi where, not Sridevi told though, na? Very cool. I likey :)
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 6:30 PM
I got the second one too. I would have put it as:
The door is next to Daughter-In-Law, but where’s Sridevi?
Great clue though.
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 6:51 PM
If I say “where’s Sridevi” or ” sridevri where” that’s giving it away! (throwing away the grammer ofcourse) I guess it gets much simple.
About bear! Groan! Double groan! Hope I haven’t tickled unwanted organizations with that comment.
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 7:11 PM
[gvenum] Tickle unwanted organizations? Er? Do I even want to know what you mean by that? Er, no, wait, don’t answer that. On the song clue, I don’t think ‘where’s Sridevi?’ gives it away. It nicely ends the clue on a question mark, like KG put it, much like the song itself does. Either way, nice clue :)
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 7:33 PM
Superstar dirty idiot stomach lost smelling nicey UN just life men.
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 10:09 PM
1) Leh gets strong wind in this life!
Ae zindagi gale laga leh
Friday, September 22, 2006 @ 11:17 PM
Innocent city in Gujarat, pickle of 70s comedic siblings
US war from the 60s big, Indian King maker small
Saturday, September 23, 2006 @ 9:34 AM
[Megha-ji] I don’t know about gult movies with ‘female-siblings-separated-at-birth’ theme but I think in tam, there was one Vaani Raani , if my memory serves me right*. It was evidently dubbed into/from other languages as well. But, I’m not sure if it did have a YKB moment.
OTOH, this post is wicked & craaazy! ( ala Gnarls) :)) LOL!
* - I, some times, have selective amnesia.
Now did I write that?
Saturday, September 23, 2006 @ 9:42 AM
Nice [Unfair and lowly!] Very Nice! You get the goodies!:)
Saturday, September 23, 2006 @ 12:15 PM
[gvenum & Unfair n Lowly] Excellent!!
[Molu] Got the song but didn’t get the Indian king maker part.
Saturday, September 23, 2006 @ 2:11 PM
[gvenum] got’em both atlast..very cool!! First one is one if the very best of Raja’s compositions, IMO :)
[Megha] The correct pronunciation is dei (similar to hindi “give”) and taDi (”wet” in Telugu) :)
Baba Seagull? wicked!
bAnchan, A jeans-pant pATa Edo ceppurri.. dimAg kharAb aitundi
Haha, I sink I am the one who introduced her to this mad house :)
I can sink of atleast 2 Telugu movies with such concept. One is Ganga Manga starring Vanisri, Krishna & Sobhan babu - similar to Sita aur Gita.
The second one is pretty popular actually.. one of the golden oldies.
Hint: Your blog post has a reference to the name of a central character in the movie :)
Saturday, September 23, 2006 @ 3:59 PM
[Desh Ki Mitty] Haha! Good one!
Saturday, September 23, 2006 @ 4:02 PM
[Desh ki Mitty or deitaDi] Clue please. That one’s driving me crazy.
Saturday, September 23, 2006 @ 4:44 PM
[KG] it has a reference to Tam phillum industry :)
Saturday, September 23, 2006 @ 6:23 PM
[deitaDi] Dang. Can’t believe I didn’t get it before. Thank you!!
Saturday, September 23, 2006 @ 6:52 PM
[Molu] aha! I didnt get the kingmaker part too :)
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 4:11 AM
What structured statically typed programming language, what water path is yours Devdas’ neighbor?
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 8:32 AM
[KG] I never heard this song but constructed it purely based on the clue - good one :)
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 10:52 AM
[deitaDi]: What, never heard this song??? Next you’re going to tell me that you’ve never seen a Sunil Shetty movie.
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 11:06 AM
[gvenum and Unfair n Lowly] Aha! Most excellent :)
[Desh ki Mitty] Clever!
[Molu] Oooh. I likey very much! The Indian King maker bit is a VERY nice twist :)
[Vasu] See, that’s the thing. Vaani Raani seems to fall in the Ganga Manga and Seeta aur Geeta category of female-twins-separated-at-birth. That is not so much like Yaadon Ki Baaraat as much as it is Ram aur Shyam and Kishen Kanhaiyya. I’m trying to think of a movie where the separation and eventual meeting of non-twin sisters was the backbone of a story. Cannot come up with a single example in Hindi or Telugu.
[deitaDi] Ahh! dei-tadi! Got it now :)
Aha jeans-pant-u to nenosthe, meeru baggy-pant-u pai choostaaru
Aha baggy-pant-u to memosthe, meeru pancha-lungi choostaaru
Meeku edi kavaalo, naaku ardhamu kaalede
Poolabaanaalesaame, pichchivaallayyipoyame!
(Excuse language mutilations, tried to transcribe lyrics as I remember them)
About Ganga Manga, as I said to Vasu above also - I’m looking for female-non-twin-siblings type movies, which is what YKB is, na? But what is this second movie? Hint in my blog post aa? Khushboo or Kiran? Clue ivvu talli!
[KG and deitaDi] Indian King maker = maker of Raja Hindustani aka Dharmesh Darshan :)
[KG] Heh heh heh :) Devdas’s neighbor, it seems. It’s been ages since i’ve heard this song! *exits singing ‘hayyyaaa .. tararam tam taaram’*
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 2:43 PM
double life of veronique
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 3:16 PM
[Guest] Yesh? Something about the film connects to this post?
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 3:32 PM
they are not twins seperated at birth
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 3:42 PM
[Guest] Aaah! Thankoo! Didn’t realize it was a reference to that. I was talking about desi movies though. The lost-and-found/sibling-separation theme is one of our favorites, after all. Suggestions in that department?
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 4:29 PM
Hum dono, Yakeen..
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 4:54 PM
[KG] Finally I get one song. I knew there was *some* good to watching Baba Sehgal host Superhit Muqabla in Tamil! I don’t remember the movie though, Shastra was it?
[Megha] Please close comments and put new post. I can’t stand this any more. The Superstar is not dirty, be it in Hindi or Tamil or English! The Superstar is infallible….
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 4:56 PM
[Guest] Ah, see you’re thinking of lookalikes who are not twins, a la Kaho Na Pyaar Hai. Both Hum Dono and Yakeen fall in that category, yes? I am looking for something that is a female version of Yaadon Ki Baarat or an Amar Akbar Anthony. The brothers/non-twins separated-at-birth story is very common in Bollywood. I want a female equivalent of that. Ideas?
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 5:07 PM
[anantha] Yes, Shastra :) And close comments? Nahiiiiiiin! I can understand your pain though :)
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 5:22 PM
[KG] Thinking again, I might have heard it - but one of those songs that didnt quite get “stuck” I guess :)
[Megha] Thanks, Thanks & Tankulu erri machu (for formatting tips, Indian king maker and the song)
about the song though - you tricked me! I was sinking about something as “good” as the ducky egg song.. You got the lyrics mostly correct though :)
the other movie definitely belongs to the category you are looking for!
Not Khushboo or Kiran. The happy one!
And..
aTlenduku anpincindi sAr :|
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 5:46 PM
[deitaDi] Oho! Ayyo! Now that I think about it, I have NO clue why I thought what I thought. Sorry. Muchly apologetic for confusion. Duly corrected and chastised :)
Bhery bhelcome-u. It is always the song that comes to mind when I think of jeans-pants-u, what to do. Intent was not to trick. Just sharing of tender childhood memories and all that good stuff.
Not Khushboo or Kiran? KMG then? Sigh .. now I have to think some more. Clue pliss?
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 5:55 PM
[Megha] No worries :)
Hmm, how do I do this without giving it away completely… hmmmmer..
lets see - If Keshto Mukherjee (from Chupke Chupke) were to propose to someone, what would he say?
Reminder: This is still a clue for the name of the central charcter in the movie :)
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 6:18 PM
[deitaDi] Sigh. This gets worse. Are we talking Hindi or Telugu?
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 6:24 PM
[Megha] English :)
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 6:26 PM
[deitaDi] Ah, English aa! So wait, let me make sure I understand this. English movie. Non-twin sibling-separation flick. Female siblings. And central character is connected to James from Chupke Chupke?
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 6:31 PM
Decides that he would gain a lot by making himself a martyr for the cause and wonders if he should do something drastically stupid to stop people from playing the Riddler!
Okie.. ENOUGH! This post has been something like “101 ways to kill me slowly”!
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 6:31 PM
[Megha] RAma rAma..
Telugu movie(It was definitely remade in Tam - not sure about Hindi). Non-twin separation birth flick. Central character’s name is a happy name in your blog postand its in the vocabulary/lingo of james :)
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 6:34 PM
[anantha] Heh - Understand your pain buddy :)
[Megha] In the spirit of Gandhi-giri, do you wish to take this offline? :)
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 6:41 PM
[deitaDi] Humare liye kuch mat karna. Gandhigiri ke naam se bhi kuch mat karo. Sab apne apne dil se poocho aur jo woh kehta hai, wohi karo!
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 6:44 PM
[anantha] Aww. Just as long as we don’t actually succeed, it’s all good :D
[deitaDi] Purely for fear of public lynching, I think that might be a very wise idea. Pliss to :)
Sunday, September 24, 2006 @ 6:48 PM