Friday, January 06, 2006

Bun, Tea, aur Bubbly


-pic courtesy of some genius- i didnt take the pic :)

I was watching Bunty Aur Babli. And I noticed some off-focus things that kept me awake. Here they are:

  • In that 'Dhadak, dhadak. Dhadak, dhadak. Dhuwan udaye re...' song... whenever the 'dhadak, dhadak...' chorus comes, there will be a train somewhere in the terrain.

  • When Bunty and Babli scams that bald 'phirangee' by selling Taj Mahal to him, they throw him a wedding bash. The name of the band that played in the procession is called Milan Band.

  • In the Taj Mahal scam, Bunty proposes the fake news (that Taj Mahal is for sale) to be printed in Agra Times, whereas the bald guy is shown later to be reading the news from The Times of India.

  • Bunty carries a cricket bat in his shoulderbag, but does not even talk of cricket during the whole movie. Much like SRK draping those monochromatic sweaters of different hues around his shoulder and not wear it even once in that rash-breaking Mohabbatein movie.

  • After Babli makes a call from her mobile to the airport control tower to give a bomb scare, and when Dasrath calls back on the cell, Babli does not know how to switch it off. Wouldn't you have dumped the cell as soon as you made the call, or kept it on silent or vibra mode?

  • With Dasrath hot in their pursuit, Bunty manages to take laboring Babli to the hospital, have the baby delivered, and abscond from the hospital with them, all before Dasrath even manages to reach the hospital.

  • After the capture, during train ride with Dasrath, Bunty monologues and says that he does not want to be a train ticket collector like his father... judging by absurd, bollywoody scripts and the serendipitous turn of events, I was fully expecting his father to open the door and ask for their tickets.

  • After Dasrath decides to let them go and the duo step off at a platform, the movie pans from a tea stall with a board 'Jungle Mein Mangal' with a painting of Amir Khan in his Mangal Pandey look. (Mangal Pandey had not been released then... Coincidence?)

  • And in Babli's arms is a too-huge-to-be-only-a-few-days-old baby who is not bunldled and is naked to the chest.

  • After B&B settle down in Fursatganj, Bunty's hometown- one morning, Babli lovingly lathers Bunty's jowls with a shaving cream while he talks to their kid. After the kid leaves, Bunty wipes off the cream without shaving.
  • 5 Comments:

    Blogger Sid said...

    Bun, Tea aur Bubbly

    Dude, that has to be one of the greatest puns I've ever seen. Extra points for the picture. Hats off to you.

    PS. Word-verificatin is going nuts by the day. I just typed 8 friggin' letters.

    4:17 PM  
    Blogger Milan said...

    I didnt take the picture. I had seen it a while ago, and then googled for it.

    6:51 PM  
    Anonymous Anonymous said...

    Dude, was that a cricket bat he was carrying? I thought it was a tennis racket? Still though, I think your point holds as I don't remeber him talking about tennis either.

    9:21 PM  
    Anonymous Anonymous said...

    FYI Buddy, This photo was taken by my friend. This is KReSIT canteen of IITB.

    5:27 PM  
    Blogger Milan said...

    Ok.
    Thank you for letting me know. And if your friend came across the pun by himself, tell him he's a great genius.

    BTW, B&B's second part is coming. It's called "Bunko Fee and Effervescent"

    12:51 PM  

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