Pehle sone ki Lanka jalegi, uske baad RaavaN maara jaayega

Film : Duniya

Year of release : 1984

Spoken by : Mohan Kumar (Dilip Kumar)

Spoken to : RD Puri (Ashok Kumar)

Dialogue writer : Javed Akhtar

 

In All the President's Men, the 1976 movie based on the Watergate scandal, Deep Throat tells Bob Woodward to 'follow the money'. After 9/11, terrorism was constricted by drying up its funding. That has resulted in ordinary people like you and me having to do myriad things like KYC and PAN, even when we have to buy a 10000 rupees mutual fund. But drying up the funds flow is a sure shot to weaken an enterprise.

 

In this superb revenge movie, Mohan Kumar approaches Puri (whom he had saved in a prison fight) for help, to extract revenge from the troika of villains. He says,

 

"Yeh teen alag alag aadmii nahee.n hain, teen sar.on waalaa ek raakshas hai...

un teen saro.n waale rakshas se,  main laDoonga

 

Puri agrees to help him. He says,

 

"Theek hai, agar tum yahi chaahte ho to. lekin ye laDaai tumhe jazbaat se nahee.n, aql se laDni hogi.

kyonki dushman tumse, mujhse kahee.n zyaadaa taaqatvar hai"

 

And Mohan Kumar comes up with this classic line.

 

"sabse pehle mujhe us taaqat ko khatm karna hoga. Pehle sone ki Lanka jalegi, uske baad RaavaN maara jaayega"

"सबसे पहले मुझे उस ताक़त को ख़त्म करना होगा. पहले सोने की लंका जलेगी, उसके बाद रावण मारा जाएगा"

 

After that, nemesis strikes the troika of villains.

Meree samajh meN ye naheeN aataa ki tum kameene zyaadaa ho, yaa bewaqoof

इसे हिन्दी में पढने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें

Film: Duniya
Year of release: 1984
Spoken by : Mohan Kumar (Dilip Kumar)
Spoken to : Balwant (Amrish Puri)
Dialogue writer : Javed Akhtar
 

Portions of this scene have been featured earlier too. Mohan breaks into Balwant's house and is waiting for him, with a minatory motive. Balwant manages to find his revolver and points it at Mohan. Mohan suggests that he has already removed all the bullets from the revolver (he shows him six bullets). His logic is that - he would not have come and ensconced himself in a villain's lair and not sanitised it for arms and ammunition. Mohan uses the power of dialogue to sell his story

"मेरी समझ मे ये नहीं आता कि तुम कमीने ज़्यादा हो, या बेवक़ूफ"

"Meree samajh me ye naheeN aataa ki tum kameene zyaadaa ho, yaa bewaqoof"

Balwant falls for the power of the dialogue (and so do we) and drops the revolver. Mohan picks it up and we discover that the revolver is actually loaded. Leaving us wondering, whether Mohan was more 'kameenaa' or more 'bewaqoof', for having left him exposed to such a risk.

Anyways all well that ends well. Balwant dies under the wheels of an oncoming truck, prompting Mohan to remark - ....

Try and remember that classic line. Can't? Search the archives or the labels. Great line that.

Duniyaa meiN aisaa koee qanoon nahee hai ki puraanaa aadmii Gaddaaree nahee kar saktaa

Film : Duniya
Year of release : 1984
Spoken by : JK (Pran)
Spoken to : His associate (Unknown)
Dialogue writer : Javed Akhtar

This is another line from the 1984 movie Duniya. Jugal Kishore aka JK (Pran) is the chief villain in the film. He is told that one of his trucks containing contraband goods has been captured by the police. He suspects one of his men. His aide protests and says they are all old hands. Pran retorts with
दुनिया में ऐसा कोई क़ानून नहीं है कि पुराना आदमी ग़द्दारी नही कर सकता
We all find solace in dealing with people we know. Often we meet an old friend from college and start trusting him from the word go. It is possible that he might have changed from the way he was in college. But it seems impossible to us because we are very comfortable with that person. Higher desires and ambitions might have completely changed the person. But the ‘puraanaa aadmii’ syndrome is rampant even in corporate India. I know you for 6 years and I know another person for 8 years. I think I will deal with the other person, since I know him longer. If such a situation confronts you, remember this line by Pran