Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi – YRF’s Take On Reality Shows
Rumors say that the script of Yashraj Films’ Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi - scheduled for a December 12 release - is a very closely guarded secret. News is around the actual script has been read by only three people - Aditya Chopra, the director, Shah Rukh Khan and the assistant director. Not even the crew and the rest of the cast - including the leading lady knew what the film is all about.
But there are a few spoilers going around. First was a selective leak that RNBDJ would see Shah Rukh in a double role. That looks likes plain propaganda from Yash Raj Films to me to confuse people. But now, news comes in that this story is - of an unlikely, and age-mismatched couple (SRK and Anushka Sharma) who lead a pretty unromantic life. And then comes in a reality dancing show on TV called Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. The wife would love to be part of it. But SRK doesn’t fit in. So SRK undergoes a makeover - including learning to dance. All in an attempt to woo back the wife.
However, this script has been attempted before by YRF themselves- as a sub-plot in Madhuri Dixit’s Aaja Nachle, where Vinay Pathak played the husband.
The problem really is with YRF’s style of filmmaking, which has been leading to repeated flops over the past couple of years. They first pick up a theme - and then weave a script around it. And it doesn’t work. They took up “live-in relationships” and went on to create Salaam Namaste (Ok that was a lift of Nine Months), they saw Pixar’s Cars and thought they could do something similar - ended up with Tara Rum Pum. They thought “dance” and created Aaja Nachle. They thought “dance in London” and wrote Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. They thought “nothing” and they created Tashan. All bombed. The only exception was Chak De India - which Jaideep Sahni developed from a news article.
Now, RNBDJ was probably developed a couple of years ago - when reality shows were the in thing. Aditya Chopra has a fascination for dance-related movies and they thought that a film about reality dance shows like Nach Baliye would work well. But a year down the line, things have changed. Thanks to the overkill by short-sighted producers, people are sick of reality talent shows on television. People have realized that all of it is fake - and in any case there are too many shows - which nobody watches anymore.
And in times like this, YRF comes out with its most ambitious film in years - RNBDJ - with Shah Rukh Khan - that too with a reality show as a backdrop.
Will that click with audiences? I have no idea.
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We can’t predict ‘RNBDJ’ will click with the audience or not,but promos looks promising…atleast it looks different frm the other potboilers tht we are dished out evry week..
I think RBDJ will be super hit. As it is SRK’s film ,every SRK’S fans will watch it. I love the song Hole hole…… very nice, He looks good in his different look.
He is very clever, he will promote it wery well. I like his acting, Like always he will rock.
Pranam, Namaste, Namaskar, Namaskara to everyone here.
I heard on the radio that today is World Hello Day.
So a Loud hello to all of you in these different langauges….
Afrikaans - haai (hello) pronounced Ha-i
Albanian - tungjatjeta (hello) pronounced Toon-jat-yeta
A’Leamona - tél nìdõ (good day) pronounced tehl-neye-doe
Arabic - subbal-el-kheir (good morning), masaa-el-khair (good evening): note that Kh is pronounced from the back of the throat. mArHAbAn (Hello) pronounced Mar-ha-ban
Armenian - barev or parev
Azerbaijani - salam (hello) pronounced Sa-lam
Bahamas – hello (formal), hi or heyello (informal), what you sayin’, Buyh? (very informal - slang)
Basque - kaixo (pronounced kai-show), egun on (morning; pronounced egg-un own), gau on (night; pronounced gow own)
Bavarian and Austrian German - grüß Gott (pronounced gruess gott), servus (informal; also means “goodbye”; pronounced zair-voos)
Bengali — ‘aas salamu alaay kum’ (In
Bangladesh) ‘namaskar (In West Bengal, India)
Bremnian - koali (pronounced kowalee)
Bulgarian - zdraveite, zdrasti (informal)
Burmese - mingalarbar
Cape-Verdean Creole - oi, olá
Catalan - hola (pronounced o-la), bon dia (pronounced bon dee-ah)good morning, bona tarda (bona tahr-dah) good afternoon, bona nit (bona neet)good night. You can also say just “Bones (bo-nahs) to make it informal.
Chamorro - hafa adai (hello/what’s up?), hafa? (informal), howzzit bro/bran/prim/che’lu? (informal), sup (informal)and all other English greetings
Chichewa - moni bambo! (to a male), moni mayi! (to a female)
Chinese - 你好, Cantonese nei ho or lei ho (pronounced nay ho or lay ho) Mandarin 你好 (pronounced ni hao), 早上好（pronounced zao shang hao; good morning!）
Congo - mambo
Cree - Tansi (pronounced Dawnsay)
Croatian - bok (informal), dobro jutro (morning), dobar dan (day), dobra večer (evening), laku noć (night)
Czech - dobré ráno (until about 8 or 9 a.m.), dobrý den (formal), dobrý večer (evening), ahoj (informal; pronounced ahoy)
Danish - hej (informal; pronounced hey), god dag (formal), god aften (evening; formal), hejsa (very informal).
Double Dutch - hutch-e-lul-lul-o (hello), gug-o-o-dud mum-o-rug-nun-i-nun-gug (good morning; formal), gug-o-o-dud a-fuf-tut-e-rug-nun-o-o-nun (good afternoon; formal), gug-o-o-dud e-vuv-e-nun-i-nun-gug (good evening; formal)
Dutch - hoi (very informal), hallo (informal), guten tag (formal)
English - hello (formal), hi (informal), hey (informal,)
Esperanto - saluton (formal), sal (informal)
Estonian - tere’
Egyptian - Salaam Alekum’(sulam ulakume) (Goodbye) Ma Salaama (ma sulama) the “U” is pronounced its usual way(Example:up)
Fijian - bula uro
Finnish - hyvää päivää (formal), moi or hei (informal), moro (Tamperensis)
French - salut (informal; silent ‘t’), bonjour (formal, for daytime use; ‘n’ as a nasal vowel), bonsoir (good evening; ‘n’ is a nasal vowel), bonne nuit (good night). There is also “ça va”, but this is more often used to mean “how are you?”
Gaelic - dia duit (informal; pronounced dee-ah gwitch; literally “God be with you”)
Georgian - gamardjoba
German - hallo (informal), Guten Tag (formal; pronounced gootan taag), Tag (very informal; pronounced taack).
Gujarathi - kem che
Greek - yia sou (pronounced yah-soo; informal), yia sas (formal)
Hawaiian - aloha
Hebrew - shalom (means “hello”, “goodbye” and “peace”), hi (informal), ma kore? (very informal, literally means “whats happening” or “whats up”)
Hindi - नमस्ते, namaste (pronounced na-mus-thei)
Hungarian, Magyar - jo napot (pronounced yoh naput; daytime; formal), szervusz (pronounced sairvoose; informal), szia (pronounced seeya; informal)
Icelandic - góðan dag (formal; pronounced gothan dagg), hæ (informal)
Igbo - nde-ewo (pronounced enday aywo), nna-ewo (pronounced enna wo)
Indonesian - halo (hello), selamat pagi (morning), selamat siang (afternoon), selamat malam (evening)
Italian - ciào (pronounced chow; informal; also means “goodbye”), buon giorno (pronounced bwohn geeornoh; good morning; formal), buon pomeriggio (pronounced bwohn pohmehreejeeoh; good afternoon; formal), buona sera (pronounced bbwoonah sehrah; good evening; formal)
Japanese - ohayou gozaimasu (pronounced o-ha-yo go-zai-mass; good morning), konnichi wa (pronounced ko-nee-chee-wa; daytime or afternoon),
konbawa (pronounced gong-ban-wa; evening); moshi moshi (pronounced moh-shee moh-shee; when answering the phone); doumo (pronounced doh-moh; informal way of greeting, but means countless other things as well so only use when context makes sense)
Jibberish - huthegelluthego, h-idiguh-el l-idiguh-o (formal), h-diguh-i (informal), h-idiguh-ow a-diguh-re y-idigah-ou? (meaning “how are you?”)
Jamaican(slang)- Yow Wah gwaan (pronounced wa-gwaan)
Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) - kwe kwe (pronounced gway gway)
Kannada - namaskara
Kazakh - Salem (hello), Kalay zhagday (How are you?)
Klingon - nuqneH? [nook-neck] (literally: “what do you want?”)
Korean - ahn nyeong ha se yo (formal; pronouned ahn-yan-ha-say-yo), ahn nyeong (informal; can also be used to mean “goodbye”)
Kurdish — choni, roj bahsh (day; pronounced rohzj bahsh)
Lao - sabaidee (pronounced sa-bai-dee)
Latin (Classical) - salve (pronounced sal-way; when talking to one person), salvete (pronounced sal-way-tay; when talking to more than one person), ave (pronounced ar-way; when talking to one person; when talking to someone respected), avete (pronounced ar-way-tay; when talking to more than one respected person)
Latvian - labdien, sveiki, chau (informal; pronounced chow).
Lingala - mbote
Lithuanian - laba diena (formal), labas, sveikas (informal; when speaking to a male), sveika (informal; when speaking to a female), sveiki (informal; when speaking to more than one person).
Lolcat - Ohai!
Luxembourgish - moïen (pronounced MOY-en)
Malayalam - namaskkaram
Maltese - merħba (meaning “welcome”), bonġu (morning), bonswa or il-lejl it-tajjeb (evening)
Maori - kia ora (kia o ra), tena koe, ata marie, morena (good morning)
Marathi - namaskar
Mongolian - sain baina uu? (pronounced saa-yen baya-nu; formal), sain uu? (pronounced say-noo; informal), ugluunii mend (morning; pronounced ohglohny mend), udriin mend (afternoon, pronounced ohdriin mend), oroin mend (evening; pronounced or-oh-in mend)
Nahuatl - niltze, hao
Navajo - ya’at’eeh
Niuean - faka lofa lahi atu (formal) fakalofa (informal)
Neapolitan - cia, cha
Nepali - namaskar, namaste, k cha (informal), kasto cha
Northern German - moin moin
Northern Shoto - dumelang
Norwegian - hei (”hi”), hallo (”hello”), heisann (”hi there”), halloisen (very informal).
Oshikwanyama - wa uhala po, meme? (to a female; response is ee), wa uhala po, tate? (to a male; response is ee) nawa tuu? (response is ee; formal), ongaipi? (meaning “how is it?”; informal)
Oromo(Afan Oromo) - asham (hi’)akkam? (how are you?),nagaa (peace, peace be with u)
Persian - salaam or do-rood (see note above - salaam is an abbreviation, the full version being as-salaam-o-aleykum in all Islamic societies)
Pig Latin - eyhay (informal), ellohay (formal), atswhay upay? (”what’s up?”)
Polish - dzień dobry (formal), witaj (hello) cześć (hi, pronounced, “cheshch”)
Portuguese - oi, boas, olá or alô (informal); bom dia or bons dias (good morning, used before noon or before the noon meal); boa tarde or boas tardes (good afternoon, used after noon or after the noon meal, until twilight); boa noite or boas noites (good evening and good night, used after twilight).
Punjabi - sat sri akal
Rajasthani (Marwari)- Ram Ram
Romanian - salut, buna dimineata (formal; morning) buna ziua (formal; daytime) buna searaformal; evening), buna (usually when speaking to a female pronounced boo-nhuh)
Russian - pree-vyet (informal), zdravstvuyte (formal; pronounced ZDRA-stvooy-tyeh)
Samoan - talofa (formal), malo (informal)
Scanian - haja (universal), hallå (informal), go’da (formal), go’maren (morning), go’aften (evening)
Senegal - salamaleikum
Serbian - zdravo (informal), dobro jutro (morning, pronounced dobro yutro), dobar dan (afternoon), dobro veče (pronounced dobro vetchay evening), laku noć (night)
Sinhala - a`yubowan (pronounced ar-yu-bo-wan; meaning “long live”)
Slovak - dobrý deň (formal), ahoj (pronounced ahoy), čau (pronounced chow) and dobrý (informal abbreviation)
Slovenian — živjo (informal; pronounced zhivyo), dobro jutro (morning), dober dan (afternoon), dober večer (evening; pronounced doh-bear vetch-air)
South African English - hoezit (pronounced howzit; informal)
Spanish - hola (pronounced with a silent ‘h’: o-la), alo, qué onda (South America;very informal, like “what’s up”; pronounced keh ondah), qué hay, (South America; very informal), qué pasa (Spain, informal), buenos días (”good morning”), buenas tardes (afternoon and early evening), buenas noches (late evening and night). These three forms can be made informal by saying “buenas”. Also Qué Transa (Mexico;very informal, like “what’s up” pronounced keh trahansa). Qué tál, meaning “what’s up”, pronounced “kay tal”.
Sulka - marot (morning; pronounced mah-rote [rolled r and lengthened o], mavlemas (afternoon; v is pronounced as a fricative b), masegin (evening; g is pronounced as a fricative)
Swahili - jambo, Habari (hello), Habari gani (How are you?)
Swedish - tja (very informal; pronounced sha), hej (informal; pronounced hey), god dag (formal)
Swiss German - grüzi (pronounced grew-tsi)
Tagalog (Pilipino - Philippines) - Kumusta po kayo? (formal, means “How are you, sir or madam”, pronounced “kuh-muh-stah poh kah-yoh”), Kumusta ka? (informal, means “how are you?”, “kuh-muh-stah kah”). You can also add na when talking to someone you haven’t see in a while, Kumusta na po kayo? or Kumusta ka na?. Magandang umaga po (Good morning, pronounced “mah-gan-dang oo-mah-gah poh”), Magandang hapon po (Good afternoon, “mah-gan-dang ha-pon poh”), Magandang gabi po (Good evening or night, “mah-gan-dang gah-beh poh”), Magandang tanghali po (good day, literally midday or noon, “mah-gan-dang tang-ha-leh poh”); NOTE: to make these informal greetings, drop po from the end and add the person’s first name. Still, some people use words like mare or pare (very informal greeting, mare pronounced “mah-reh” for a close female friend; pare pronounced “pah-reh” for a close male friend). You may add it either before or after the greeting. Example, Mare, kumusta ka na? or Kumusta ka na, pare?
Tahitian - ia orana
Tamil - vanakkam
Telugu- namaskaram
Telugu - baagunnara (means “how are you?”; formal)
Tetum (Timor - Leste) - bondia (morning), botarde (afternoon), bonite (evening)
Thai - sawa dee-ka (said by a female), sawa dee-krap (said by a male)
Tongan - malo e lelei
Tshiluba - moyo
Tsonga (South Africa) - minjhani (when greeting adults), kunjhani (when greeting your peer group or your juniors)
Turkish - merhaba (formal), nevar? (Informal)
Ukranian - dobriy ranok (formal; morning), dobriy den (formal; afternoon), dobriy vechir (formal; evening), pryvit (informal)
Uzbek - Assalomu Alaykum (Formal) Salom(Informal) YM
Ung Tongue - Hello (This is a made-up language, like Pig latin. This is pronounced Hung-ee-lung-lung-oh.)
Urdu - adaab ir salam (waley-kum)
Vietnamese - xin chào
Welsh - shwmae (North Wales; pronounced shoe-my)OR Helo
Yiddish - sholem aleikhem (literally “may peace be unto you”), borokhim aboyem or gut morgn (morning), gutn ovnt (evening), gutn tog (day), gut shabbos (only used on the Sabbath)
Zulu - sawubona
- Have a wonderful day!
I got the above from http://www.wikihow.com/Say-Hello-in-Different-Languages
and the wikiw has this to say about World Hello Day. I like the concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Hello_Day
shobha ..u r a masterpiece
Thank you Ahmed. You are awesome too! And it’s nice to see you here today.
Assalam-o-Alekum to you.
wa/salam shobha jaani
hello everyone.
big banner. good director, and srk are enough for quality assurance…….
but looking at the past experiences ,it is very difficult to say anything for sure……
story line is looking good ……and there is enough scope for humour,dances,and backstage agony of reality show contestants.
manish great article..
movie looks lousy
by the way first time i was disappointed with your Dostana review.. i saw it the other day and it was sick to the core. karan johar has gone bonkers and he used john abraham to the fullest in revealing himself. it was soooooooooooo sick to watch the actors in skimpiest clothes… and it was toooooooo dragging.
i think all these big production houses have gone bonkers and out of good stories. anyway this movie doesnt impress me at all.. music is also mediocre so i agree with ur article to the fullest
by the way how u doing?
I don’t expect big things frm this movie.
YRF has had many dissapointing movies
Only big thing in this Movie is ShahRukh Khan
but still i’m gonna see this movie 1st day 1st show just for SRK
And I think Ghajini is gonna be way better than Rab ne banadi jodi cuz of Aamir Khan,Remake of Memento and music
Did you listen to the songs? Not bad… In fact, I like the second song: HAULE HAULE, by Sukwinder Sing.
Would love to ear Raja singing this song….. It would be fantastic….merveilleux.
@ Shobha
Bonjour Shobha,
You are fantastic!!!!
@ Shobha, You are awesome…………………….. Yesturday was not only World Hello Day but also World Television Day…..
By the way, I have one question, don’t you think Dutch and Germany is one and the same? I think Germans call it as Dautchland and we - Germany.
@ raffu, you then don’t watch Yuvraj also. Audience response for it is very poor.. The ratting is one ya two out of five.
I read that the script is not good and also acting by hefty paid actors is not upto the mark. If you wanna watch Kat like me then go for it.
I yesterday managed to watch Yuvvraaj. Such a huge headache. Sorry Raffu!
manish u managed to watch ‘yuvraaj’…it was a huge headache for u..tht means i cud nt watch ‘yuvraj’ such a big relief.
@ france ‘haule haule ‘ is a nice song .i too liked it.
its a soft songs.. & gud thing is, its sung by sukhwinder singh…..
and i like the picturisation also….
Asalaam Aleikum to all of you and it is deutschland which does not mean dutch the austrians and the germans are almost the same dutch are close because they are all europeans and have adjoining borders
sorry Shahrukh ko toh bhool hi gayi I would love to see this movie and the thought that someone teaches shahrukh to dance makes me laugh because I love the way he dances I could watch him for hours
mmao jee.. i hv notice 1 thing in ur comment tODAY…
ur style is different today…pata nahi mujhe aisa q laga
Acha tum ko aisa kyon lag raha hai mera style multifaceted multi dimensional hai mein kya hoon abhi tum ko pata nahi mein ne hongkong ke nulkon ka pani piya hai
Aur Ahmed tum bhi yaheen phas gaye ho mein forum check kar kar thak gayi
forum par aa kar karoon kya?ek weeran shaher lagta hai..
kya tum ko mein bhooth dikhthi hoon aaj aur kal mein waqtan fa waqtan aya karoongi tum bhi kuch likho mein bhi kuch likhongi dekho shehed daalney se makhiyaan aathi hain ya nahi
This is hi-funda stuff.
Waqtan fa waqtan = Kabhi kabhi?
Literal meaning time after time in the end it means everynow and then
kabhi kabhi denotes fewer times waqtan fa waqtan is more often
wao mmao gee u urdu so well..i m impresed.
i mean , u speak urdu so well …
Why are you impressed bhai? did you not expect me to speak well at my age ???? did you expect me to say apun ka toh ab idharich funda ho gaya ray appun ko koi nahi poochtha appun jaathi khandala kya?or did you expect me to say hum idhar ko behytha hai abroad mein hum ko urdu samajh nai ata hai hum english ke mafik baath karney ko saktha hai hhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm
Arey mian Ahmed hosh ke nakhun lo tumhari walida e majida ki umr ki hoon aur pehle bhi keh chuki hoon ke hongkong ke nalkon ka pani piya hai
aray mmao jee app to har baat par daant lagatee hai..
Yeh daant toh nahi hai beta yeh toh explanation hai aur agar mein in alfaaz mein guftogoo nahi karti toh kehthey ho ke aap ka style badl gaya hai ab tum hi batao mein kya karoon
@Ahmed
Thank you Ahmed for showing me my mistakes in such a nice way….
Shobha, God bless you. You are a Gem. How did you find so many Hellos?
Manish, Great Article.
Shobha, very informative article. Thank u very much. Apart from Raja Hasan here we are getting information about other things also. That is speciality of this forum. Thank u once again. Manishji nice article.
@ mmao
THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION. But i wanna tell one thing –
“Deutsch” is a word in the German language meaning ” German”. Germans call their coutry “Deutschland” & their language “Deutsch”.
” Dutch” is a word in English refering to the language spoken in the kingdom of Netherland also known as Holland. This language can also be called Netherlandic.
The language of Holland & German are very closely related, they are still two different languages….
Anjali dear isn’t that what I said ? dutch and germans are not the same except for being europeans
mmaoji, you were right. After reading your comment, i clarified & i just post the information that i got.
Im very thankful to you for pointing that dutch & deutsch is not same. Before that i beleived so….
So thank you, thank you……