Ye Bruce Lee kaa naheeN Osama kaa zamaanaa hai

Film : Contract

Year of release : 2008

Spoken by : Karim Ali (Ranjeev Verma)

Spoken to : Allwyn (Yasir Khan)

Allwyn is a henchman of RD. He is always showing off kick-boxing moves and he is also a Bruce Lee look alike. In one such face-off with another gangmember Karim Ali, Karim whips out a revolver and says

"ये ब्रूस ली का नहीं ओसामा का ज़माना है"

"Ye Bruce Lee kaa naheeN Osama kaa zamaanaa hai"

This is an obvious reference to the fact that UAC or unarmed combat is not effective in the age of AK47s.

Jab sar kaTne vaalaa hai to daaDhee karane se kyaa faaydaa

Film: Contract

Year of release : 2008

Spoken by : Goonga (Upendra Limaye)

Spoken to : IB operative (Vikas Shrivastav)

Goonga is an underworld don - who is the government's favourite. The intelligence bureau is pinning its hopes on him to eliminate the rival dons (viz., RD and Sultan). He is paranoid about his security and he runs his business and home from a boat which keeps moving around in the sea. However, all his plans to assassinate his rival RD are failing. And he is losing a lot of his men too. He is in a pensive mood and fiddling around with his electric shaver - but not using it. The IB operative asks him

"Aajkal tu shave-wave naheeN kar rahaa?

To which he responds

"Ab sar kaTne vaalaa hai to daaDhee karane se kyaa faaydaa"

"अब सर कटने वाला है तो दाढ़ी करने से क्या फ़ायदा"

Faisle naheeN unke nateeje Galat hote haiN

Film: Contract

Year of release : 2008

Spoken by : Amaan Ali Yusuf (aka Aman Mallik played by Adhvik Mahajan)

Spoken to : Ahmad Hussain (Prasad Purandare)

Contract is Ramgopal Varma's take on Govind Nihalani's Drohkaal. It is 1 hour too long. On second thoughts make that 2 hours. Jokes apart, the film could have been redeemed with tighter exposures. RGV is full of bluster and arrogance on his blog, when he says that a film is supposed to be the director's view and he cannot really take into account people's likes and dislikes. I agree with him. But Mr Varma, can you please keep the camera on the 0 feet above sea level and please switch on the tubelights on the set. I try to switch on all the tubelights in my house, but as Javed Akhtar said

"Aasoodgee se dil ke sabhee daaG dhul gaye

lekin wo kaise jaaye jo sheeshe meN baal hai"

"आसूदगी से दिल के सभी दाग़ धुल गये

लेकिन वो कैसे जाये जो शीशे में बाल है"

All the tubelights in my house cannot undo the total darkness on the screen. But then I am digressing. The protagonist has been planted by a top police operative in the terrorist camp and halfway through the film the police operative (Ahmad Hussain) asks the protagonist Amaan :

"tumheN kabhee aisaa lagaa hai ki tumne Galat faislaa kiyaa hai?"

Aman responds

"Faisle naheeN unke nateeje Galat hote haiN"

"फ़ैसले नहीं उनके नतीजे ग़लत होते हैं"

This is so true. Whenever we call a decision as wrong - it is with hindsight. And hindsight as they say has 20/20 vision.