The Bollywood Ishtyle!

The monsoon has hit the city, everyone is either completely drenched or has a bad cold. My friends in Lonawala(a hill station in Maharashtra) can't see each other because of the heavy fog and are afraid that they would vanish. Fortunately, I have hidden my umbrella and raincoat in a safe place(why?just refer to my third post).

I thought of just staying indoors today as I could not step out, thanks to the non stop rain. But its nice to sip a  hot cup of coffee in the cold weather and watch it rain ,sitting beside the window and listen to Bollywood songs. Baarish and Bollywood go a long way back. The best rain number from the yesteryears "pyaar hua ikraar hua" is one that i totally enjoy. 

That reminds me, I am teaching a friend Hindi these days. I suggested him to listen to songs from Bollywood movies and then  translated the lines to him. I made him  listen to "Bhaag Bhaag" from "Delhi Belly" recently, which has mind blowing lyrics.  He did learn some interesting stuff like,

chuha = mouse

bhaag bhaag = run run
naag = cobra
bheja= brains
piddi= small
pigeon = kabootar(reminded him of "computer")
followed by a series of Pjs like,
"personal kabootar"
"want to watch a movie on your kabootar?"
"oh no! my kabootar just crashed!"
Also some dishes that were learned like,
parantha = (parenthesis)
vada pav = sierra nevada pav, darth vadapav

The lessons finished with a few offensive Hindi words learned from the song, which he would use on his friends one day(wink) and they would never know the meaning. Next time I plan to bring famous Bollywood dialogues to the lessons like,

"kitne aadmi the?"
"mere paas maa hai!"
"khamosh!!"
Lets see how that works out.

In exchange for this I have been learning French and Hebrew from him. Hebrew is Hebrew to me but I like French, bonjour!! Also some new English from a song that almost made it to "The Simpsons"(wink again).
I realize it has stopped raining, had a wonderful afternoon. Au revoir people!!