hindi-cinema on S Anand

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:19:27 +0000

Loved this Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani scene where Ranveer asks, “Chinese ko Chinese bol sakte hai?”

हम बहनदी भी नहीं बोल सकते? आंटी, मैं दिल्ली से हूँ। मैं कैसे नहीं बहनदी बोलूं बहनदी!? कैसा जमाना आ गया है? फैट-ों को फैट नहीं बोल सकते, ब्लैक-ों को ब्लैक नहीं बोल सकते, ओल्ड-ों को ओल्ड नहीं बोल सकते, मुँह खोलने से डर लगता है मुझे! आप मुझे बताओ, चाइनीज़ को चाइनीज़ बोल सकते हैं?

Can’t we even curse “Damn it!”? Aunty, I am from Delhi. How can I not say, “Damn it”, damn it!? What times are upon us? You can’t call fat people fat, you can’t call black people black, You can’t call old people old, I am actually afraid to open my mouth! Tell me, can you call Chinese people Chinese?

अगर मुझे चाइनीज़ आर्डर देना है तो क्या करूँ? फ़ोन करूँ “हाँ भाईसाहब, वह हिमाचल से राइट जो जगह है, हाँ हाँ पड़ोस वाला मुल्क, हाँ वही कोरोना वाला, हाँ, वहां का एक क्रिस्पी चिकन लगा दो” अब आप बोलोगे “कोरोना वाला” नहीं बोल सकते!

If I want to order Chinese, what should I do? Should I call, “Yes bro, that place to the right of Himachal Pradesh. Yes, yes, the neighboring country, yes, the one with Corona, yes. Get me a crispy chicken from there” Next, you’ll say, “You can’t say “Corona”‘!

बचपन से, बचपन से दादी कहती आ रही है, “चाय पीने से काले हो जाते हैं, चाय पीने से काले हो जाते हैं”। अब पता चला है, ये रेसिस्ट है!

Since childhood, Grandma taught us, “Drinking tea turns you black. Drinking tea turns you black”. Now I learn that’s racist!

किसी ने ये भी नहीं सिखाया कि कौन सी गाली देने से मिसोजनी हो जाती है। यह भी नहीं बताया कि गोलू को गोलू बोलने से फैट शेमिंग हो जाती है। हमको तो यह सब नॉर्मल लगता। हमको तो कभी रॉन्ग लगा ही नहीं। हमको पता ही नहीं यह बोलने से सामने वाले की फीलिंग्स हर्ट हो सकती हैं!

No one ever taught us which abuses become a “misogyny”. No one ever told us that calling Chubby ‘Chubby’ is “fat-shaming”. We all thought this was normal. We never had an inkling it was wrong. I didn’t know that saying this may hurt others’ feelings!

Beautifully worded. Lovely acting. Nothing I could add to it.

(Except: Whisper and most transcription APIs handle Hindi poorly. Claude 3.5 Sonnet does better than GPT-4o on Hindi grammar.)

SD Burman songs quiz

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:00:00 +0000

Here is the background music from SD Burman's songs. Can you guess which movie they are from?

Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green.

Comments

Kalpesh 20 Mar 2007 1:47 pm: Dude, it throws 404 (file not found). Moreover, I think it is copy-paste problem. All tje songs point to a.mp3 ;) BTW, I like your site & have subscribed to you in bloglines.
Sri 9 May 2007 8:11 pm: Cool ones…. could you give me answer to the SD Burman quiz please, I only I got 3 right :(

Hindi songs 1995s

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Here is the background music from some Hindi songs between 1995-1999. Can you guess which movie they are from?

Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green.

Comments

Sarvadamana 13 Oct 2006 7:38 pm: 9/10 in the previous and 8/10 in this one. Is it possible to mail the answers for numbers 6 and 7 of this quiz and number-6 of hindi songs 2000s?
amitabh biyani 21 Oct 2006 5:28 pm: 10 on 10 here :) good quiz
sourish 21 Dec 2006 3:01 am: 10/10
deepak joshi 6 Oct 2012 5:49 am: thank you

Hindi songs 2000s

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Here is the background music from some Hindi songs from the 2000s. Can you guess which movie they are from?

Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green.

Comments

Mihir 13 Mar 2009 6:44 am: Hey, Anand.Great work !!! Keep it up… One question, from which song is the 1st piece ?
Dhar 8 Oct 2006 9:29 pm: A friggin 0 outta 10. :(
S Anand 9 Oct 2006 7:13 am: You really need to start watching Hindi movies, buddy ;-)
Dr. Atul Garg 9 Oct 2006 10:56 am: Pretty good quiz. I scored 5/10 and I think I recognised a few other tunes but couldn’t guess the movie. I couldn’t even cheat from the page source code, couldn’t be bothered to go into JS scripts to get the answers. Thanks. Nice one !! Good website too.
S Anand 9 Oct 2006 12:04 pm: Thanks! (I did go to some pains to encrypt the answers, so the JS scripts wouldn’t have helped either :-)
Venkatesh S 12 Oct 2006 12:17 pm: Hi Anand, This is Venky, Batch of 2000 from IIMB…good to connect after ages! Great Quiz..I got 6/10..let’s keep in touch. Cheers!
S Anand 12 Oct 2006 8:12 pm: Hi Venky! Great to hear from you. Will mail you.
Sandeep 20 Oct 2006 2:16 pm: 9/10 mate. But could not guess the first one.
amitabh biyani 21 Oct 2006 5:37 pm: 9/10 here too. don’t know the 1st one
Rajesh 1 Nov 2006 3:00 pm: 9/10: Whats the first one?
SHAMIT 27 Apr 2007 1:36 pm: First one is Swades ;)
sonu goyal 20 May 2007 3:13 am: aaaa
anusha 8 Oct 2006 12:00 pm: I scored 9/10…whats the 4th one….
nabanita 8 Oct 2006 12:00 pm: hehehhh it was gr8….!! nice test..!! hav sum more??
Anson 22 Nov 2008 11:09 pm: Scored 9/10… the 4th audio is a bit difficult. Anyway, good work, Anand… Keep it up.
Rivjot 12 Mar 2009 8:57 am: 10/10 too easy, should have made a little harder appreciate the efforts for putting the quiz though, i love ur blog :D
Anup 4 Nov 2009 11:13 pm: 10 on 10. Very easy ones.
Anil 8 Jul 2010 3:59 pm: got all ten.. 1st one confused me for a while though..
nirmala 18 Dec 2010 8:34 pm: 5 n 10 coulndt find…help pls