Sunday, January 13, 2008

Ek Din Achaanak....

Ek din Achaanak.... You came to my blog...and since you've come, you started reading this post. This is how my writing of this post started too.. Achaanak.. Dunno why, when i am having lots of work to do, weird ideas and thoughts come to my mind and it makes me type them down on my blog. As they say "Ideas are floating around.. all you have to do is pick them".. but my problem is i can pick them only when I have important things to do. So its always "Achanak" ..

Though this title has no significance to what I am gonna write, it was important for me to give a title which would atleast make you start reading.. So now, fasten your seat belts as this flight will take you somewhere you never imagined..

I heard somewhere that "Great Minds Think Alike".. This fits in to the bollywood industry which has an excellent breed of great writers who "think alike" while writing the dialogues and scenes..

How are these ever repeating Dialogues :

*Mujhe naukri mil gayi maa, yeh lo meri pehli kamai..
*Bhagwaan ke liye mujhe chod do(dont ask me who this bhagwaan guy is..)
*cheekho tumhaari cheekhen in chaar diiwari se baahar nahi jaayengi..(Must have used some Vaccum Engineering to build this chaar deewaari)
*Tumhe pulis ne charo taraf se gher liya hai.. apne aap ko kaanoon ke hawale kar do.(and i dont know how the the vllian still manages to escape.. Maybe there is a fifth side as well ;-))
*Kaanoon ke haath bahut lambe hote hain (I always wanted ask --Uncle Uncle, Octopus se bhi lambe???)

Now coming to scenes, Most of the movies you will find a person whom the hero pushes into the swimming pool/off the road or snatches the bicycle from while chasing the villian, or a herd of goats blocking the way of the car in which hero sits and gets the first glimpse of the heroine holding a goat or a sheep.. and most of the times, hero and heroine meet in a fight..

I know you are enjoying to read this but simultaneously..you are thinking .. huh.. I know all this.. why are you writing about this??

Because, What we didnt realise is, there are many such dialogues and scenes that keep repeating in real life as well.. as they say.. movies reflect the mood of the society..

Havent you heard of these lines..

"Uff these traffic Jams!!! I am fed up of this".. (Live with it mere bhai.. there is no way out as of now..)

"In politicians ko line me khada karke goli se udaa dena chahiye" (Abe banduk ka license kaun dega Gabbar Singh??) ..

"Aur batao kya chal raha hai.."(Hindi verson of Whats up..) or

"Tum bahut badal gaye ho"..(Aisa Kya??)

These are lines that come as a package in everybodys mind and whenever similar situation comes, these words spontaneously just come out..

Not only these one liners but there are lot of scenes that are repeated in real life..

Accident victim scene ..

Now this person has met an accident and is lying on the bed when one of his friends comes and says "arey yeh kya ho gaya yaar".. kaise hua?? The victim describes every moment carefully to the friend.. Friend leaves after having some coffee.. Another friend comes.. and asks with sympathy dying to come out of his eyes.."are yeh kya ho gaya yaar".. kaise hua??.. Victim repeats.. this time with lesser details.. This thing continues till a point comes when the he curses god to have made humans speak..(I feel recording the incident in ur own voice is a good idea..) This was actually my own experience.. Thats why, when one of my friends met with an accident, I never asked what happened.. but then, i never came to know what happened.. I still think that it was because some wheeliee job was tried ;-)

Bus Stop :

As soon as the bus comes and stops some people try to get in and some try to get out at the same time and since both are simultaneously not possible, atleast one person either misses the bus or the bus stop.. What follows is a talk about the deterioting Civic sense of the society and person who talks about this generally puts himself in the Civilised lot..

Railway Station :

Everything seems to be perfect when the train is standing on the platform.. people looking for S9's and AC2's, People having samosas and tea and getting 5 samosas packed for the kids in the train, People smoking on the platform, Buying Watterbottles.. Real scene starts when the train Whistles and starts to move.. All of a sudden, people start running.. one samosa out of 5 falls down and the person running behind steps on it, one guy loses the cap of his half filled water bottle while running back, chaiwala starts searching for the change while running beside the window where he delivered the Tea, a guy who came to see off his uncle tries to get down and blocks the way for the smoking person to get on to S5, and person supposed to get on to S2 gets on to S10 and somebody consoles his wife in S2 saying "aur kisi bogie mein chadh gaye honge.. Aa jayenge ghabraiye mat"

General Compartment :(My Favourite)

I always love this part of the Indian Railways.. It actually shows the "Unity In Diversity" of india.. actually, the compartment also reminds me of the battleground of Kurukshetra .. You get all kinds of people here... villagers, city dwellers, learned, illitrate, Ganja smokers, people from all relegions, castes, trying to exist in one compartment..
Once you are in, somebody shouts.. Uff Bahut bheed hai...Bhaisaab.. zara khisakenge, baithna hai.. thoda sa adjust kijiye...then that guy replies.. nahi bhai.. aur 3 log hain.. zara bahar gaye hein..
You can hear a Gentleman saying somewhere..Bhaisaab zara side denge.. ladies hain saath mein.. thoda adjust kijiye..
Another shout is heard: Are yahan khade hone ko jagah nahi hai aur aapko sona hai!! Uthke baith jaiye..and then 4 people climb up on to the top berth.
Almost whoever is standing will invariably be looking all around the compartment with wide eyes trying to find some place to sit and believe me...for a split second, some will even consider a bald gentlemans smooth head as a seat ..
and there will always be someguy standing near the door smoking bidi (Unique feature of general Bogie) and the real purpose of him standing near the door is lost as the smoke actually comes in and makes us smoke passively..

We may mock the dialogues of our movies, we may curse the guy who blocked the way while catching the bus, we may think we are unique (infact, all of us are..in some way) but there is something thats common in our behaviour.. something common to all of us.. that binds us together.. What is it?? you tell me ... What i tell you is... Things repeat sometimes... One more question.. Did you imagine an end like this when you started reading???

12 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Helloo :)

No I dint imagine the ending would be like this..t'was almost like a city darshan..theatre..hospital..bus stop..railways.. tiring by the end!! ;)

One dialogue I hate most is tht "Whats up?"..both english and hindi..its like you wonder whether an answer is expected..or are you supposed to reply also as "Whats up" with a smile... actually irritating!
and you know..i've often noticed the person who is at the hospital...they always end up feeling more sick each time they repeat how they got sick...its almost as if they relived the episode again :)
And general compartment...dont you feel like a proud Indian then??!! You can see every little aspect (in ppl) of India in that tiny compartment!!

Cool post :):) :)

5:48 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

....weird ideas... floating... achaanak... at the end i could just imagine what u really meant ..
one more dialogue v use often " or kuch to nhi khayenge na aap" :)

12:27 AM  
Blogger Manohar said...

@preetha.. Thanks :) I do feel proud of being an indian.. these things are special and happen only in india..

@sari .. dhanyavaad ki aapne kuch kaha :)

3:45 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

nice one buddy....hope ur flights of fantasy keep on enriching us with amazing blogs like this ......

9:07 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Manohar, that was real good...U manage to twist and turn things as and how u like it and also keep us interested in what u r writin...cool job!!!!

10:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

it was reallly cool Manohar,
Even My favourite is the same
General Compartment :)

2:16 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

it was reallly cool Manohar,
Even My favourite is the same
General Compartment :)

2:28 AM  
Blogger Reema Dash said...

wat is the speciality ,i believe it's our culture and sensibility dat binds us alwyz let it be crowd enjoying ganesh chaturdhi or wheather every1 helping each other during the bomb blast!
we are lot more stronger dan ny country bcoz of our culture!!!
n sir aap ke observation ko man na padega!!!
hats off to u!
gud post!!!

1:20 AM  
Blogger Manohar said...

thanks reema :) I guess you are right.. culture is one of the things that binds us..

1:23 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

AAchaanak....Manohar aap to bahut gyaani hoagye hain...yeh achanak aap ne Flight To Fantasy ki Udaan pakad ke badi lambi udaan pe nikle hain..very nice stories..keep writing..

9:58 AM  
Blogger saurabh said...

that was cool manu, you know what? every person reading this would actually co-relate himself with all those happenings...be it a compartment or a bus..very natural and creative..for me it was like my mind was virtually seeing all those scenes, as if they were happening right in front of me..

12:29 PM  
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