He says he loves philosophical cabbies. He recounts this one time when he'd hurt himself and was walking around with a bandaged forehead. He'd got into a cab and had just settled into the seat when the cabbie asked him,
: Sahab, aapke sar pe kya hua?
: Chot lag gayi.
: Sahab, dil pe lagne vaali cheez chot hoti hai. Jo sharir pe lage usko 'maar' kehte hain.
He's laughing so hard as he tells me this, that I begin to love the cabbie too. Not for being philosophical, though there's that too, but for making him laugh this way.
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:) I can see why!
I wanna meet this cabbie guy! He could be a good dialogue writer for films, no?
films??? I think he is better than most of the guys writing for the movies!
This reads more like Ph than CS. Have you swapped lives or just styles?
DewdropDream: Hai na? :)
Banno: Ooo, I didn't think of that! Unfortunately, since this was neither my cabbie nor my story, we've lost an excellent dialogue-writer to cabbie-hood. Damn.
Roy: I agree! And *waaayyy* better than the guy who wrote the dialogues for that tomato of a film, Prem Aggan.
The heroine's "O havas ki aag mein lipte hue kutte!" is burned into my brain till today. *Burned*.
Anon: *slow blink*
Umm, neither, I think.
cabbie rocks, i vote for Anurag Kashyap hiring him!
I presume that you have not seen Gunda!
Haha. Well worded. My cabbies are always painfully boring. However, a cab I took the other day had this interesting little ditty printed on the rearview mirror - Love is a sweet poison. Made my early morning ride to work a little brighter. :)
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