Happy thenku memsaab, Imaandar Policewala, Lalchi seth, wafadar dost, boodhi maa and natkhat choti behna... i dont know where all these cliched lines have gone. The problem with love- hate relation with all these things is that, when you are surrounded by them you are oximoronated by them but when they are gone you suddenly start to miss them. I think all those who live on a dream will be quite interested in stories and cinema. But there is a common problem with us. We just cant get enough. Very greedy people and believe in volumes. Given an option to have one candy of rs.20 and two candies of rs.10; we may go for 2 of them. It is a very common thing with kids if you watch them closely.
They prefer having 10 crayons of different colours than having 5 sketch pen untill and unless they dont see that the other kid is having a lot of fun with only 5 pens.
Even i did use this technique to manipulate my guileless little brother. But then he too got educated about this thing very soon. But those were different days and very hearty is the feeling to remember about those things. Earliar we used to fight over a cassette of Lucky Ali that my friend gave me. He strarted brawling about he having the same and another one. It was useless to have 2 cassettes of same kind when they play exactly the same music with one tape recorder to play at the same time!
Now when he called me yesterday that he was listening to Lucky Ali and about how he is missing home, we remembered that thing and had quite a laugh.
I remember how in the first year when mobile was a new hit with 1 paisa tarrif overnight and some of us really did some notorious activity with the thing. Prank calls at airtel, friends' friend and stuff.
“ Hello”
“ Main Jindal bol raha hoon mohra se”
“ Kya... kaun hai”
“ Kya aap andhe hai”
“ Abe kaun hai”
“ Tu cheez badi hai mast mast lala la la la la mast”
Another one..
“Hello”
“ Haan kaun hai itni raat ko”
“ Ji main airtel customer care se bol raha hun sir”
“ raat ko 2 baje”
“ Ji sir yeh hamari muft sewa hai, jisme hum grahkoon ko yaad dilate hain if they had urinated before going to bed.”
“ What?”
“ Yes sir it is important, otherwise you may wet the bed”
“ What the @#@#$#$#@”
“ Sir kya aap hamari sewaoin se santust hai?”
A dozen others but we did used a lot of cliched characters from bollywood to accomplish the task. My favorites were Raja Hindustani- 'U cum cum memsaab' and Jindal from Mohra.
Now when such films are not made which had left a strong impression on my mind, i wonder what will be the shape of future and the stereotypes. ;)
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