Ahh Mumbai. My place. My people.
The people in Mumbai are an emotional lot. Bollywood and TV ads plays a vital role in everyone's life in Mumbai. There has not been one day when I have not heard someone quote a Bollywood hero/ heroine or an advert slogan.
An uncle pulling out a chocolate from his pocket for a kid would inadvertently back it up with a dhan-ta-dhan (a la Kameeney) while handing it over.
Occassionally at a lunch table in the office, someone would come up with 'tere paas burger hai, tere paas lunch thaali hai. Mere paas kya hai? Mere paas maa hai.' and then opens his home made lunch box.
Every group, community and organisation has been impacted by hindi movies. Some of the departments in the government services seem to have taken hindi songs too seriously, no? For example, there is the department which is searching for that evading golden bird mentioned in the song:
jahaan daal daal par sone ki chidiyaan karti hai baseraa...
Or the roads work department, who are always digging for the hidden gold on the streets of the city based on the message from Manoj Kumar:
Meri desh ki dharti sonaa ugalay
This is what makes Mumbai, "Mumbai". The sights and sounds of the city.
An uncle pulling out a chocolate from his pocket for a kid would inadvertently back it up with a dhan-ta-dhan (a la Kameeney) while handing it over.
Occassionally at a lunch table in the office, someone would come up with 'tere paas burger hai, tere paas lunch thaali hai. Mere paas kya hai? Mere paas maa hai.' and then opens his home made lunch box.
Every group, community and organisation has been impacted by hindi movies. Some of the departments in the government services seem to have taken hindi songs too seriously, no? For example, there is the department which is searching for that evading golden bird mentioned in the song:
jahaan daal daal par sone ki chidiyaan karti hai baseraa...
Or the roads work department, who are always digging for the hidden gold on the streets of the city based on the message from Manoj Kumar:
Meri desh ki dharti sonaa ugalay
This is what makes Mumbai, "Mumbai". The sights and sounds of the city.
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