"Bollywhat?!"
Bollywhat?! is a truly interesting site, whose goal is “making Bollywood accessible to fans everywhere” by serving as a “guide for clueless fans of Bollywood films.” The site has many great features, including lyrics and vocab translations, biographies, music info, movie reviews, opinion pieces, links etc. I highly recommend checking out the site for yourselves, I am sure you will find something that will interest you.
The other day, when I was browsing the site, I stumbled across a HILARIOUS song, which I promptly fell completely in love with. The song was written by one of the Bollywhat?! song translators who was thoroughly exhausted of the same old lyrics. I’m sure everyone has heard them… the famous but physically impossible “I'll hide you in my eyelashes,” or the classics “I can’t sleep at night” and “I can't live with you,” and even my personal favorites “my heart beats just for you” and “you've stolen my peace/sleep”. You gotta love ‘em! Well, the author come up with a great alternative, “a song no Bollywood startlet will ever croon,” entitled "Uff Yeh Kya Hua Mujhe".
The other day, when I was browsing the site, I stumbled across a HILARIOUS song, which I promptly fell completely in love with. The song was written by one of the Bollywhat?! song translators who was thoroughly exhausted of the same old lyrics. I’m sure everyone has heard them… the famous but physically impossible “I'll hide you in my eyelashes,” or the classics “I can’t sleep at night” and “I can't live with you,” and even my personal favorites “my heart beats just for you” and “you've stolen my peace/sleep”. You gotta love ‘em! Well, the author come up with a great alternative, “a song no Bollywood startlet will ever croon,” entitled "Uff Yeh Kya Hua Mujhe".
Uff Yeh Kya Hua Mujhe
uff yeh kya hu'aa mujhe
Ugh, what's this that has happened to me?
yeh kya hu'aa mujhe phir se hu'aa mujhe
What's this that has happened to me yet again? Again it's happened!
jahaa.n bhii dekhuu.n mai.n tumhii ko paa'uu.n
Wherever I look, I find only you,
chaahe baazaar "disco" yaa "P.O." jaa'uu.n
whether I go to the market, the disco, or the P.O.
mera piichha kyo.n karte ho
Why are you following me?
bekaar aashaa karte ho
You've got no chance.
mere sapno.n me.n tum nahii.n aate
I don't see you in my dreams;
mere chain ko tum nahii.n churaate
you don't steal my peace.
mujhe nii.nd har raat jaldii se aatii hai
I fall asleep each night very quickly,
aur sote sote bahut hii mazaa aata hai
and I get great pleasure from it.
tere li'e nahii.n roz sa.nwartii huu.n mai.n
I don't get dressed up each day because of you;
"fashion" hai isli'e aisa kartii huu.n mai.n
I do it because it's the fashion.
tere samajh me.n kyo.n nahii.n aata yeh
Why don't you understand this?
tujhe dekhkar mera dost tera mazaak uRaata hai
When my friend sees you, she calls you an idiot.
tuu sachmuch "stupid" hai ya koii "stalker" hai
Are you really stupid, or are you a stalker?
besharm hai yaa apne aapko "hero" sochta hai
Are you shameless, or do you think yourself a hero?
mujhe koii farak to nahii.n paRta rapaT likhwaa duu.ngii
Makes no difference to me; I'm filing a report!
tujhe palko.n me.n nahii.n qaid me.n chupaa'uu.ngii
I'll hide you not in my eyelashes, but in prison!
uff yeh kya hu'aa mujhe
Ugh, what's this that has happened to me?
yeh kya hu'aa mujhe phir se hu'aa mujhe
What's this that has happened to me yet again? Again it's happened!
mera piichha kyo.n karte ho
Why are you following me?
bekaar aashaa karte ho
You've got no chance.
mere sapno.n me.n tum nahii.n aate
I don't see you in my dreams;
mere chain ko tum nahii.n churaate
you don't steal my peace.
mujhe nii.nd har raat jaldii se aatii hai
I fall asleep each night very quickly,
aur sote sote bahut hii mazaa aata hai
and I get great pleasure from it.
tum zaruur sabse judaa ho is shahar me.n
You're definitely unique in this city,
aur yeh bhii ho sakta hai ki saare duniya me.n
and it's also possible that in the whole world,
tere jaise koii "idiot" nahii.n...
there's no idiot like you...
aakhir sach hai ki Sanjay aur Raahul ne bhii sataaya
After all, it's true that Sanjay and Rahul also annoyed me,
par bhaag gaye jab mai.n ne "Daddy" ko bulaaya
but they ran away when I called Daddy.
tere bina jiite hu'e aTHaarah saal ho gaye hai.n
I've been living without you for eighteen years,
aur tere bina aasaanii se jiya karuu.ngii mai.n
and I'll quite easily keep living without you.
mera dil dhaRakta hai mamii-paapa kii vajah se
My heart beats because of my parents (giving birth to me);
sirf sirdard ubharta hai terii to vajah se
on your account, the only thing that pounds is my head.
yeh kya hu'aa mujhe
What's this that has happened to me?
yeh kya hu'aa mujhe phir se hu'aa mujhe
What's this that has happened to me yet again? Again it's happened to me!
mera piichha kyo.n karte ho
Why are you following me?
bekaar aashaa karte ho
You've got no chance.
mere sapno.n me.n tum nahii.n aate
I don't see you in my dreams;
mere chain ko tum nahii.n churaate
you don't steal my peace.
mujhe nii.nd har raat jaldii se aatii hai
I fall asleep each night very quickly,
aur sote sote bahut hii mazaa aata hai
and I get great pleasure from it.
uff yeh kya hu'aa mujhe
Ugh, what's this that has happened to me?
yeh kya hu'aa mujhe phir se hu'aa mujhe
What's this that has happened to me yet again? Again it's happened!
Wasn’t that just brilliant? I HEART “Uff yeh kya hua mujhe.”
posted by tanvi @ 12:33 PM
2 Comments:
OH MY GOD! that was the funniest thing ever!
hiding in my cubicle and dying of laughter
Oh my, real good!
At first it sounded almost stalkerish.
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