Many of my friends didnt like the way i wrote about Rajni's Robot. I also was trying to find any silver-lining to this movie. After spending couple of minutes(actually it took me only split second to come to this conclusion but i am being polite :p) i realized that there is none. Lets put it in other words - my meager mental capabilities failed to acknowledge the hard-work(?) that people put in making this movie(I almost said crap, but hey, thats just me :p). I agree that i failed to recognize the talent in this movie(like there is any in it). Speaking of talent lets look at it through other perspective, look at the Hindi lyrics of its songs. First let me tell you a story about a very 'talented' guy :
In 1970 a Marathi guy was born. His parents christened him Swanand. Boy shows talent in songwriting and decides to go into the film line. He gets his big break winning Filmfare Award for writing a song 'Piyu bole' for an artistic film Parineeta, Boy continues his journey and keeps getting kudos and accolades for his songs. He wins National award twice(Lage Raho Munna Bhai and 3 Idiots). Now he feels like he is on the top of the world and there is no way he could achieve anything more than this. So he decides to write songs for one movie,no, let me correct myself, for a phenomenon called Robot. And this is where he makes BIG mistake of his life. Boy, now grown man fails to understand that its not a good idea to translate any song from one language to another. But still takes upon the responsibility to do so. And the outcome of it is very unbearable Hindi lyrics of Robot.
By now you must have figured it out that these songs are my next target to deride here. When i was watching this movie in the cinema hall i could have bet 1000 bucks that some of these songs were not in Hindi. Well i am glad that i did not said that out loud or Shiva, the guy who was sitting beside me would have been 1000 bucks richer. I googled those lyrics and here we will dissect at least some of those 'lyrical gems'.
Following lines are taken from song Naina miley
a) I am a super girl dil pyaari wraper girl : This is in english in the original song so this was the first thing that my ear caught. But still this doenst make any sense. Why would Ash call herself a super girl. In the movie her character is of normal run of the mill stupid south indian girl. And whats up with the adjective 'wraper girl' Swanand dude, seriously??
b) Neeley se naino ki, Chaavi hai meri hai : here Swanand fails to hide his Marathi roots. The fact that Robo Rajni calls Ash Chaavi does this for him.
c) Pyaar ki gaadi main, motor na jadh jaye : very cheesy one. One could have thought a better way to capture the same emotion in words(if there was any emotion in it).
d) Shutdown bhi bhula main tadapa hoon saari rein : Again writer shows his mediocrity. I know one cant sleep at night when one is bitten by love bug. But comparing 'shutdown' with sleep is just doesnt fit.
e) Sensor mere takke hai naa sakoon hai na hi chill : The above explained thing goes for the usage of word sensor in this context too. And one more thing Swanand, are we making our Robo very hip by making him say some teenage lingo(chill)?
They played this song during the promos so i targetted this one. If you listen to other songs then you will understand others are written on the similar line more or less.
I was your fan Mr. Swanand Kirkire but you have proven yourself that the thing you wrote for Robot was nothing but 'Kirkiri'.
In 1970 a Marathi guy was born. His parents christened him Swanand. Boy shows talent in songwriting and decides to go into the film line. He gets his big break winning Filmfare Award for writing a song 'Piyu bole' for an artistic film Parineeta, Boy continues his journey and keeps getting kudos and accolades for his songs. He wins National award twice(Lage Raho Munna Bhai and 3 Idiots). Now he feels like he is on the top of the world and there is no way he could achieve anything more than this. So he decides to write songs for one movie,no, let me correct myself, for a phenomenon called Robot. And this is where he makes BIG mistake of his life. Boy, now grown man fails to understand that its not a good idea to translate any song from one language to another. But still takes upon the responsibility to do so. And the outcome of it is very unbearable Hindi lyrics of Robot.
By now you must have figured it out that these songs are my next target to deride here. When i was watching this movie in the cinema hall i could have bet 1000 bucks that some of these songs were not in Hindi. Well i am glad that i did not said that out loud or Shiva, the guy who was sitting beside me would have been 1000 bucks richer. I googled those lyrics and here we will dissect at least some of those 'lyrical gems'.
Following lines are taken from song Naina miley
a) I am a super girl dil pyaari wraper girl : This is in english in the original song so this was the first thing that my ear caught. But still this doenst make any sense. Why would Ash call herself a super girl. In the movie her character is of normal run of the mill stupid south indian girl. And whats up with the adjective 'wraper girl' Swanand dude, seriously??
b) Neeley se naino ki, Chaavi hai meri hai : here Swanand fails to hide his Marathi roots. The fact that Robo Rajni calls Ash Chaavi does this for him.
c) Pyaar ki gaadi main, motor na jadh jaye : very cheesy one. One could have thought a better way to capture the same emotion in words(if there was any emotion in it).
d) Shutdown bhi bhula main tadapa hoon saari rein : Again writer shows his mediocrity. I know one cant sleep at night when one is bitten by love bug. But comparing 'shutdown' with sleep is just doesnt fit.
e) Sensor mere takke hai naa sakoon hai na hi chill : The above explained thing goes for the usage of word sensor in this context too. And one more thing Swanand, are we making our Robo very hip by making him say some teenage lingo(chill)?
They played this song during the promos so i targetted this one. If you listen to other songs then you will understand others are written on the similar line more or less.
I was your fan Mr. Swanand Kirkire but you have proven yourself that the thing you wrote for Robot was nothing but 'Kirkiri'.
..... ke ma ki kikrkiri ...:)
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