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Showing posts with label Suchitra Sen. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 27, 2008

kahaaN aa paaoongee maiN din meN

Film : Aandhi
Year of release : 1975
Spoken by : Aarti Devi (Suchitra Sen)
Spoken to : JK (Sanjeev Kumar)

This is an all time classic. Aarti and JK are a separated couple, who meet 9 years later. Aarti is in town for a political rally and the hotel she is staying in belongs to JK. As they get over the initial hesitation due to the hiatus, they go for long after dinner walks. In one such situation, while the song "Tere binaa zindagii se koii" is being played in the background, JK explains to Aarti

Suno aarti, yeh jo phoolon kee belen nazar aatee hain naa, darasal yeh belen naheen hain, arabee mein aayaten likhee hain. Ise din ke waqt dekhnaa chaahiye, bilkul saaf nazar aatee hain,
din ke waqt yeh saaraa paanee se bharaa rehtaa hai. Din ke waqt jab ye…

सुनो आरती, ये जो फूलों की बेलें नज़र आती है ना, दरस्ल ये बेलें नहीं हैं, अरबी में आयतें लिखीं हैं. इसे दिन के वक़्त देखना चाहिये, बिल्कुल साफ़ नज़र आती हैं.
दिन के वक़्त ये सारा पानी से भरा रहता है. दिन के वक़्त जब ये...
Aarti interjects
Din kee baat kyon kar rahe ho, kahaan aa paaoongee main din mein.
दिन की बात क्यों कर रहे हो, कहां आ पाऊंगी मैं दिन में

A wistful JK responds

Yeh jo chaand hai naa, ise raat mein dekhnaa. Yeh din me nahee nikaltaa .
ये जो चांद है ना, इसे रात में देखना. ये दिन में नहीं निकलता
Aarti

Yeh to roz nikaltaa hogaa
ये तो रोज़ निकलता होगा

JK
Haan lekin beech mein amaavas aajaatee hai Vaise to amaavas pandrah din kee hotee hai, lekin is baar bahut lambee thee.
हां लेकिन बीच में अमावस आ जाती है. वैसे तो अमावस पन्द्रह दिन की होती है, लेकिन इस बार बहुत लम्बी थी

Aarti
Nau baras lambee thee naa?
नौ बरस लम्बी थी ना?

Then the song continues into the stanza "jee me aataa hai tere..."

This is one of my favourite lines (even though Suchitra Sen says it). All of us do find it hard to do a lot of things during the day. The holidays are spent sleeping indoors. So the daytime is so hard to get for leisure activities. So if anyone calls you anywhere during the day and you can't make it. Use this line

कहां आ पाऊंगी मैं दिन में

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Vo mere khilaaf haiN. Isliye opposition me haiN

Suchitra Sen strikes. Once again. The 1975 classic Aandhi. Aarti Devi (Suchitra Sen) plays a politician in the film. At a press conference, a reporter asks her a seemingly silly question

“Opposition aapke khilaaf kyoN hai?”
ऑपोसिशन आपके ख़िलाफ़ क्यों है?
Aarti answers with a witticism

Vo mere khilaaf haiN. Isliye opposition me haiN
वो मेरे ख़िलाफ़ हैं. इसलिये ऑपोसिशन मे हैं.
Seems like what we would call a circular reference in Excel. It is something that Shahrukh Khan says in Don

Don ke dushmanoN kee sabse baDee Galatee ye hai ki vo Don ke dushman haiN

Or as George Bush said on September 20th 2001 – “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”.

A style statement to make to reinforce your command over a particular organization/nation.