an old post for all those wondering why the link from my profile doesn't work
i can speak 3 languages.damn i shud've stopped at 2.but being fluent in many languages has more advantages than the fluidity with which i can spit curses (why does one learn the curse words in a new language first - cud to chew in another blog).anyway this 'talent' of mine was piqued when in successive days i saw 2 movies twice,once each in hindi and tamil.the first was yuva/ayutha ezhuthu and the other was an oldy - gol maal/thillu mullu.
while the first was made in both tongues by the same guy (hence making a comparison moot), the second had a different treatment in each language. without an indepth comparison , i can safely say that the tamil version rocked. every joke in the hindi version was amplified to a higher comical level in the tamil one. i have watched the tamil version several times and the quirks and sounds that are unique to this language heighten the laughter quotient to such a level that i feel sorry for my room mates neither of whom knows tamil.
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i feel sorry for your rommmates for being precisely that :)
`vetti Hyps
Dude
I am bilingual - Tamil and English. Whenever I see Thillu Mullu, the trilingual folks claim that the hindi version rocks. You are the first one who said otherwise and I am extremely glad abt it
thanks for the comment man..
just watch the interview sequence again and tell them all to go to hell..
"sattaila enna bommai ? " can never be translated into any other language or uttered with the same effect by anyone else
Just could not avoid a discussion on Tillu Mullu, whatever said and by whoever it might have been said. Tillu Mull will be the best tamizh movie ever made for any one who understands tamizh, and ofcourse has some sense of humour in them.
I would also add that superstar made the movie what it has become. Every single dialouge from "Ey Thottakara" to "Mustache is the mirror of the heart" could not have been delivered any better. Well all this just means that I am going to catch the movie again tonight.
On a totally different note, I can speak 3 languages too and have seen golmaal and thillu mullu plenty of times, golmaal, golmaal though funny aint all that funny.
- Unhygenix
hmmm...too bad i've not seen golmaal...but wud safely say that thillu mullu is one of the best comedy movies ever...have seen it a trillion times & i can still laugh at most of the jokes :)
hmmm...too bad i've not seen golmaal...but wud safely say that thillu mullu is one of the best comedy movies ever...have seen it a trillion times & i can still laugh at most of the jokes :)
I am a Pentalinguist so does that make me 2.5 times more smarter than bilinguists?
On a side note I agree Thillu Mullu rocks. I read an article in which Hrishikesh Mukherjee himself felt Thillu Mullu was a better movie than Gol Maal.
If you ask me Hrishikesh was a better director than Balachander excepting this movie. May be you need to write a new article on that to analyze this fact, but anyone who has seen Anand and Abhimaan will know for sure that Hrishikesh never screws up the relationships in his movie as Balachander quite often does.
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nope dude its like a fixed thing ..any number more than one thats it. if u have the capacity to learn more than one language,its obvious u r smart enough to learn how many ever more..
so , nope, u arent any smarter than i am :P
why dont u accept that invite and write abt the hrishikesh mukherjee-balachander thing.. i didnt even know that abhimaan is frm that guy, so u r more qualified.. not smarter just more qualified thats it
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