Mai Tuanu Janda Haan
For the non punjabis, this phrase means ‘i know you’. Coming from Steve Carell’s mouth, it doesnt quite sound like punjabi though.
In a blink-your-ears-and-miss-it moment from the super fun movie Get Smart, this is precisely what he says to the Indian Giant in the WWE, popularly known as ‘The Great Khali‘.
The first time I didn’t even realize what he was saying. Then it hit me…this weird thing that Mr Carell is saying while getting bashed up by a seven feet tall monster human is actually punjabi!
(Image courtesy:allposters.com)
Talking of Steve Carell, i just love this guy. His character in ‘The Office‘ is so insanely awkwardly horribly sadistically nasty, yet sometimes he comes across as a person you just feel for. He grosses me out most of the times, yet i don’t hate him as much as i think i could.
Back to the topic…watch the movie if you are a Steve Carell fan. Actually watch it if you are an Anne Hathaway fan, a Rock fan, or a Khali fan. Or if you simply feel like going out and having some fun!
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July 1st, 2008 at 2:21 am
how can anyone admire someone jus cuz they are so huge and ugly!
well i guess that’s why anna nicole smith was popular. but in a diff way.
July 1st, 2008 at 12:29 pm
The movie was fun all right. I missed that dialogue….
July 1st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
You must have blinked doc
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:35 am
So Khali is in that movie..Indian news channels (aka star) go haywire about Khali and about offers he has got from Hollywood. I presume he has a small role there. I have read so much about Office on blogs that I plan to rent a DVD soon.
Between you changes to your own hosted blog, wouldn’t that be tough. MAy be I should interview you on BAB (http://beingablogger.com) soon.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
gee…an interview! does that make me a celebrity?
Khali does have a khali-peeli role in the movie. He is the villian’s hitman who cries like a baby and turns good in the end.
(check on youtube..there’s lots of ‘the office’ clips up there)
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
So you have a new website. wonder why i missed that. very nice AD! hope you are going to be posting regularly. will update my blogroll.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I came out of hibernation and just trying to make up for lost time. Hope you will like the new website! Thanks for the blogroll update Nita
July 4th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Ok, I will scrounge youtube.
BaB is modest blog considering it was inactive for a long while. We were top 50 fasted growing wordpress blogs when we started. I would get in touch with you soon.
July 4th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Hi ,
I was reading ur blog posts and found some of them to be wow.. u write well.. Why don’t you popularize it more.. ur posts on ur blog ‘amreekandesi’ took my particular attention as some of them are interesting topics of mine too;
BTW I help out some ex-IIMA guys who with another batch mate run http://www.rambhai.com where you can post links to your most loved blog-posts. Rambhai was the chaiwala at IIMA and it is a site where users can themselves share links to blog posts etc and other can find and vote on them. The best make it to the homepage!
This way you can reach out to rambhai readers some of whom could become your ardent fans.. who knows..
Cheers,
July 4th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I am myself a steve fan !!!
awesome blog!!!
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July 8th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Welcome to my blog Rahul, and thanks for the appreciation
Thanks Ray, i will check out rambhai!
March 20th, 2009 at 3:06 am
I’d even want to see him in Hindi movies as well smashing the so called baby actors. Then the overall climax of the movie will change instantly.
March 21st, 2009 at 4:08 am
I am a khali fan, he is a big hit back in India, I now know why WWE decided to make him a star
March 31st, 2009 at 3:12 am
I am also big fan of khali. I had seen that movie. It is a very intresting movie. U must see that. Really these movies and players like KHALI are making branding od India.
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:52 am
I have seen Khali once in Delhi airport and man he is very gaint but cute too. People were all around him for an autograph and he was simply smiling and saying “Namaste” to all. I like his Punjabi attitude.