Ek maraa nahee aur doosraa marne ke liye paidaa ho gayaa

This is from the 1971 all time classic Anand. One of Amitabh’s earliest movies. There are very few movies which can make you laugh and cry with extreme passion. More so it makes you do so alternately. A truly great movie indeed. I must have watched it ‘One crore times’ as my sibling puts it. But I still find a new layer every time I see it.

Dr Bhaskar Banerjee (Amitabh Bachchan) is a brilliant doctor – but disgruntled with the medical profession. He feels helpless as he sees people dying like flies due to lack of basic amenities. In one such visit to a shanty, he examines the patient and walks out shaking his head. His prognosis is death. The patient’s wife runs behind him begging him to do something. Just as he gets rid of the woman, another woman comes rushing to him with a box of sweets. She is celebrating the birth of a boy. This causes Dr Bhaskar to comment in his laconic way

Ek maraa nahee aur doosraa marne ke liye paidaa ho gayaa
एक मरा नहीं और दूसरा मरने के लिये पैदा हो गया
Use this, if you are in customer acquisition or customer service. Or even in project management. You barely are able to lament the failure of an abortive project, that you are told to spearhead a new project. The situation is crying out for the use this line

एक मरा नहीं और दूसरा मरने के लिये पैदा हो गया