Vaise bhii chor log chashmaa nahee.n pahantaa

Film : Hera Pheri 

Year of release : 2000

Spoken by : Baburao Ganpatrao Apte (Paresh Rawal)

Spoken to : Raju (Akshay Kumar) 

Dialogue writer : Neeraj Vora

Shyam (Sunil Shetty) and Raju have an interesting misunderstanding whereby both think the other person is a thief, a pick pocket. Shyam realises later that Raju was not a thief, but Raju still believes Shyam to be a thief. After this misunderstanding, Shyam lands up at Baburao's house (where Raju is already a tenant) and takes a room on rent. The moment Raju sees Shyam, he shouts at him and tells Baburao that Shyam is a thief. Shyam says he is not a thief. Baburao anyway does not trust Raju too much as he has defaulted in payment of rent for over 6 months. So he decides to believe Shyam. But once he has handled Raju, he quietly asks Shyam.

ae, ek baat bataa. tu sachmuch chor nahee.n hai naa?

ए, एक बात बता, तू सचमुच चोर नहीं है ना?

nahee.n babu bhaiyya! (says Shyam)

नहीं बाबू भैय्या!

And then comes Baburao's slam dunk line.

haa.n vaise bhii chor log chashmaa nahee.n pahantaa. 

हाँ, वैसे भी चोर लोग चशमा नहीं पहनता. 

And then as evidence of this new found trust, he gives Shyam some money and asks him to get a 'khambaa' (bottle of country liquor) for him. 

There are some home truths like this, that a lot of people believe in. That if you see a person wearing glasses, he has got to be respectable! Read another such interesting theory in this earlier post. 

Chaai se zyaadaa ketlee Garm hai

Another hilarious sequence from the 2000 comedy Hera Pheri. A bank manager (Asrani) gives a particular job to Anuradha (Tabu). Anuradha has tricked the other candidate Ghanshyam (Suniel Shetty) into giving up his candidature. When Ghanshyam realizes this he threatens the bank manager. The bank manager is egging Anuradha on to use her feminine charms and handle Ghanshyam. The three of them are standing at a BEST bus stop. Asrani signals to Anuradha with his eyes that she should get a move on with Shyam. Anuradha shows hesitation but then eventually follows Shyam into a bus which pulls in. All this is being watched by a roadside romeo (Snehal Dabi). He thinks that he has just watched a commercial transaction of a dubious nature. He desires to be a party to a similar transaction. He looks upon Asrani as the intermediary for availing similar services. Hence he approaches Asrani. Asrani initially tries to politely shoo him away but as Snehal becomes insistent, Asrani runs away angrily. Snehal remarks

चाय से ज़्यादा केतली ग़र्म है
It happens often that the object of your desire is amenable or available, but the route to that object has greater obstacles. In tamizh, there is a saying

सामी वरम कोडुत्तालुम पूसारी वरम कोडुक्कणम
Saamee varam koDuttaalum poosaaree varam koDukkaNam

Even if the God is willing, it is imperative that the priest has to be amenable as well. As Snehal says sometimes you find
चाय से ज़्यादा केतली ग़र्म है

Pahle mere ko ye samajhaa ki... samajhaanaa kyaa hai

This is one of the best comedies of the post-Hrishikesh era. I saw it in Metro theatre in Mumbai, because I was bored and had nothing else to do. Little did I know, that the best events and moments in life are serendipitous – discovered by accident. I have seldom laughed as much in a theatre. I have seen the movie a dozen times subsequently, but I still enjoy watching it. A lot of people say that it was Paresh Rawal through and through. I feel that this movie actually unleashed the comic in Akshay Kumar – till that time he was the ‘Khiladi’ action and romance league. Even Sunil Shetty plays a good foil, to accentuate the humour. This is Priyadarshan’s best Hindi film till date (IMO).

When Raju (Akshay Kumar) and Shyam (Sunil Shetty) are fighting with each other in Baburao Ganpat Apte (Paresh Rawal)’s house, Baburao tries to mediate. Shyam tells him

बाबूभैय्या इसको आप समझा लीजिये
Baburao says ok. Then pauses and turns around and asks Shyam

पहले मेरे को ये समझा, कि इसको समझाना क्या है, वो समझा।

I will have to confirm this, but I think this line first comes in Sholay (Soormaa Bhopaali uses it). But this is so true for all the communication that happens in corporate world. The head honcho tells the others to do something in a vague manner and the guys down the line continue communicating it vaguely. There are so many ‘pehlaa order cancel’s that happen that people are largely confused. So it would be a good idea before you embark on communicating goals down the line to ask the guy above you

पहले ये समझा, कि समझाना क्या है?