Ranjan agar tum mere nahee.n ban sakte, to mai.n tumhe.n aur kisii kaa bhee nahee.n banne doongii

Film : Baat Ek Raat Ki

Year of release : 1962

Spoken by : Ramu (Asit Sen)

Spoken to : Public Prosecutor (Ulhas )

Dialogue writer : Vrajendra Gaur

Some lines just get stuck in your memory and you are reminded of them when something occurs. I used to hear a program on Vividh Bharti many years ago. It was called Chitradhwani. They played out a Hindi feature film in one hour flat. So it was an edited version comprising dialogues and songs. This dialogue probably lodged itself in the recesses of my memory because of the way Asit Sen said it. I just heard that the congress government had slashed CNG prices by 30%. This coupled with the earlier freebies offered, made me think that they had decided that since they were not going to come back to power anyway, might as well queer the pitch for the next government. Something like what Saddam did in Kuwait - set the oil wells on fire. It is called scorched earth policy. 

So Neela (Waheeda Rehman) is accused of murdering Ranjan (Chandrashekhar). She in fact confesses to the crime. But the defence lawyer (Dev Anand) is hell bent on proving her innocent. 

One of the witnesses is the servant Ramu, who testifies that he heard Neela fighting with Ranjan and he repeats what he heard :-

"रंजन अगर तुम मेरे नहीं बन सकते, तो मैं तुम्हें और किसी का भी नहीं बनने दूंगी" 

"Ranjan agar tum mere nahee.n ban sakte, to mai.n tumhe.n aur kisii kaa bhee nahee.n banne doongii". 

aur meri bhee tabeeyat kucchh Theek naheen rahtii

Film : Mere Apne

Year of release : 1971

Spoken by : Biloki Prasad (Asit Sen)

Spoken to : Audience at political meeting

Dialogue writer : Gulzar

It is election time and the two rival candidates are Biloki Prasad and Anokhe Lal (Mehmood). The former is assisted by Shyam (Vinod Khanna) and the latter by Chhainoo (Shatrughan Sinha). Asit Sen, who is normally parodied by most mimicry artistes for his peculiar style of dialogue delivery and his girth, is also a very good actor with excellent comic timing. See this film (or rather this scene), for evidence  of that. So in this political meeting, our great politician starts speaking. And what does he say,

"bhaiyo aur behno desh ke bahut bure din aa gaye hain"

"भाईओ और बहनो, देश के बहुत बुरे दिन आ गए हैं"

"aaj hamaare beech panDit jee naheen hain ...neta ji naheen hain...gandhiji naheen hain..."

"आज हमारे बीच पंडित जी नहीं हैं...नेता जी नहीं हैं...गान्धी जी नहीं हैं..."

Then he takes a pause for effect and delivers the punch line. 

"aur meri bhee tabeeyat kucchh Theek naheen rahtii"

"और मेरी भी तबीयत कुछ ठीक नहीं रहती"

Asit Sen's delivery of this line has made this line walk into this blog. Otherwise I generally avoid joke punchlines. 

This is also a famous technique used in sales - called equation by association. If one goes to buy a TV,  the shopkeeper will say something like...

Sir this is Sony TV. Costs 20k. This is Panasonic. Costs 19.5k. And this is Pappu TV. This costs 16k.